PTX3 and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: Our study results demonstrate that the serum PTX-3 levels in NAFLD patients increased compared with those in the healthy controls and were positively correlated with the transaminases, UA, HOMA-IR, and the TyG index, which is consistent with a previous report [33]; PTX-3 was not correlated with TC or TGs, which is different from study results of adult NAFLD.