GPT and diabetes mellitus: According to themultivariate regression analysis, the risk of HF in the second and third GGTtertiles was still significantly greater than in the first GGT tertile afteradjusting for several potential covariates (age, sex, hypertension, diabetes,anterior myocardial infarction, and ALT); meanwhile, the ORs were 2.51 (95% CI,1.06–5.96) and 2.77 (95% CI, 1.13–6.81), respectively (p for trend =0.029).