The Spearman’s correlation coefficients between TIMP1 and markers of liver disease were low and nonsignificant (fibrosis: rs = 0.14, p = 0.40; microvesicular steatosis: rs = 0.14, p = 0.43; and Kupffer cell hypertrophy: rs = 0.18, p = 0.29). Here, TIMP1 is linked to steatosis.