ALB and diabetes mellitus: Model 2, with gender, age, race, education, and PIR as covariates, and model 3, further adding diabetes, blood lipids, cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein, high-density lipoprotein, albumin, creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, hemoglobin, platelet count, and glycated hemoglobin as covariates, both showed a similar positive correlation between TPA and MASLD-HCC (model 2 OR = 1.654, 95% CI = 1.487–1.862, P-value < 0.001; model 3 OR = 2.276, 95% CI = 1.921–2.767, P-value < 0.001).