CRP and diabetes mellitus: After adjusting for the effects of age, gender, BMI, alcohol consumption, smoking status, ALT, Cr, diabetes, dyslipidemia, hs-CRP, UIC, positive TG-Ab, and positive TPO-Ab, the ORs for SCH in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quartile levels of serum LPS were 1.979 (95% CI: 1.033–3.793), 2.867 (95% CI: 1.534–5.360), and 4.091 (95% CI: 2.198–7.613), p-trend < 0.001, respectively, compared to the 1st quartile levels of serum LPS (Table 3).