GPT and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: In the subgroup of 85 male patients with NAFLD whose ALT levels returned to normal after 12 months of treatment, multivariate regression analysis identified that weight loss (OR = 1.51, 95% CI 1.11–2.06, P = 0.01) remained an independent factor associated with GGT normalization (Additional file 3b, Additional file 1: Table S7).