Aspartate Aminotransferase – Risk Marker for Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus or Red Herring?

1 Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 2 MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, UK 3 Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands 4 Department of Internal Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands 5 Sport, Health and Nutrition Department, Leeds Trinity University, Leeds, UK *Correspondence: [email protected]