GPT and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: These results were consistent with another large-sample prospective cohort study (Joo et al., 2017), which showed that HBsAg seropositivity was associated with a lower risk of developing NAFLD during an approximately 10-year follow-up of 83,339 non-NAFLD Korean adults with normal alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels at baseline.