CD8A and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: Furthermore, when interpreting these data, it also needs to be kept in mind that in a recently published study, it was shown that composition of PBMCs obtained from NAFLD patients differs from that of controls37 with lower frequencies being found for CD3+ and CD8+ T cells, CD56dimNK cells and MAIT cells but elevated frequencies of CD4+ T cells and Th2 cells.