Table 4 Correlation between ALT and AST levels and hypertensive risk factors
Characteristic | ALT | AST | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | |||||||
r | P | r | P | r | P | r | P | r | P | r | P | |
Age | 0.018 | 0.318 | 0.010 | 0.722 | 0.000 | 0.999 |  − 0.008 | 0.661 |  − 0.023 | 0.420 |  − 0.010 | 0.665 |
BMI | 0.451 | 0.000 | 0.511 | 0.000 | 0.295 | 0.000 | 0.264 | 0.000 | 0.291 | 0.000 | 0.156 | 0.000 |
SBP | 0.273 | 0.000 | 0.206 | 0.000 | 0.105 | 0.000 | 0.150 | 0.000 | 0.090 | 0.001 | 0.045 | 0.051 |
DBP | 0.177 | 0.000 | 0.172 | 0.000 | 0.088 | 0.000 | 0.093 | 0.000 | 0.069 | 0.014 | 0.058 | 0.013 |
GLU | 0.018 | 0.319 | 0.047 | 0.091 | 0.070 | 0.003 |  − 0.007 | 0.679 | 0.006 | 0.829 | 0.027 | 0.246 |
TC | 0.153 | 0.000 | 0.252 | 0.000 | 0.066 | 0.005 | 0.104 | 0.000 | 0.151 | 0.000 | 0.070 | 0.003 |
TG | 0.266 | 0.000 | 0.310 | 0.000 | 0.171 | 0.000 | 0.130 | 0.000 | 0.136 | 0.000 | 0.094 | 0.000 |
HDL-C |  − 0.223 | 0.000 |  − 0.213 | 0.000 |  − 0.085 | 0.000 |  − 0.120 | 0.000 |  − 0.119 | 0.000 |  − 0.006 | 0.804 |
LDL-C | 0.258 | 0.000 | 0.311 | 0.000 | 0.139 | 0.000 | 0.156 | 0.000 | 0.177 | 0.000 | 0.089 | 0.000 |