HSPA1A and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: Against this background, we thought of exploring the behavior of HSP-70 and γ-GT, molecules playing a key role in both liver and endothelium, in obese patients with different entity of hepatic fat storage in relationship to carotid IMT in order to establish whether NAFLD was an independent factor of atherogenic risk beyond its association with MS and its components.