RETN and Hepatic fibrosis: Univariate two-way ANOVA test showed that progression of liver fibrosis estimated by FIB-4 and APRI scores had a significant effect on resistin values (F 17.42, p=0.001; F 40.09, p=0.001), as well as the length of antiviral treatment (F 8.109, p=0.031), (Table 4).