GPT and susceptibility to pneumonia measurement: There were significant differences in age, presence of co-morbidities such as diabetes mellitus and pneumonia, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score, levels of blood parameters such as triglycerides, fasting plasma glucose (FPG), alanine aminotransferase, homocysteine, aspartate aminotransferase, blood urea nitrogen, serum uric acid, serum creatinine, and white blood cell count, eGFR, and international normalized ratio (INR) among different SUA/SCr values (P < 0.05).