Specifically, in a study performed by Shiomi et al. (2020) in Japanese patients with T2DM and NAFLD receiving liraglutide for 24 weeks the improvement in liver function or fibrosis (assessed through aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, and fibrosis-4 indices) was found to be independent of the body mass index [147]. This evidence concerns the gene GPT and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.