We performed a nutritional assessment and evaluated clinical parameters, routine home tests, the homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance, NAFLD fibrosis score and fibrosis-4, transient elastography and controlled attenuation parameter, thiobarbituric acid reactive substances, tumor necrosis factor α, transforming growth factor β, interleukin-18 and interleukin-22, matrix metalloproteinase 2, epidermal growth factor receptor, insulin growth factor-II, cluster of differentiation-44, high mobility group box-1, and Endocan. The gene discussed is MMP2; the disease is metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.