According to the most adjusted model (adjusted for sex, age, first medical contact time, hypertension history, diabetes history, alanine aminotransferase, creatinine, culprit vessel and number of vessels), the adjusted ORs were 1.27 (OR: 1.27; 95 % CI: 0.42–3.92) and 3.09 (OR: 3.09; 95 % CI: 11.06-9.02) in the second and third NLR tertile groups, respectively (P for trend = 0.04). This evidence concerns the gene GPT and diabetes mellitus.