GDF15 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: SBP, DBP, BMI, UA, TG, HOMA‐IR, and GDF15 were the risk factors for the development of MS in combination with T2DM, based on the findings of univariate logistic regression analysis utilizing the combination of the MS (yes = 1, no = 0) as the dependent variable and the statistically significant indexes in Table 1 as the independent variables (p < 0.05, Table 4).