CRP and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: Ln-normalized SUA level was introduced as a dependent variable in the multivariate linear regression models (Figure 2), using age, BMI, waist circumference, NAFLD and MetS (both classified as yes or no), and log-transformed values of triglycerides, CRP, HOMA-IR, creatinine, and ALT, and the genomic variants as independent variable.