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Twelve demographic and biochemical features were combined with liver enzymes to train eight ML models, including logistic regression, support vector machine, random forest, K-nearest neighbors, classification and regression trees, gradient boosting decision tree, LightGBM, and XGBoost. Model performance was assessed using standard metrics including accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, and area under the curve (AUC).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Incorporating liver enzymes consistently improved model performance across the algorithms. The XGBoost model showed particularly strong performance, with baseline metrics (accuracy = 0.696, precision = 0.314, F1\u00a0=\u00a00.450, AUC\u00a0=\u00a00.803) increasing to 0.743, 0.346, 0.468, and 0.814, respectively, after inclusion of liver enzymes. Comparable improvements were observed across algorithms and in both the US and Chinese cohorts.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>ML models incorporating routinely measured liver enzymes improve T2D identification across US and Chinese datasets. 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