This association holds even at stepwise regression, albeit other traditional risk factors for diabetes coexist, with a somehow greater predictive value, such as TYG index, glucose tolerance, age, arterial hypertension, LDL-cholesterol, and metabolic syndrome, while blood glucose abolished the predictive role of ALT; of note, the fact that blood glucose levels were within the normal range of values, and that TYG index and glucose tolerance had a very strong predictive role. The gene discussed is GPT; the disease is Hypertension.