In the same study it was demonstrated that although patients with chronic liver disease exhibited significantly higher concentrations compared to healthy volunteers, the levels of LCN2 were not suitable to discriminate between non-cirrhotic and cirrhotic liver-diseased patients, suggesting that LCN2 levels provide no correlation to the degree of liver fibrosis but provide a significant positive correlation to inflammation. Here, LCN2 is linked to Hepatic fibrosis.