TH and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: In our previous study involving 369 euthyroid T2DM individuals with normal thyroid function suspected of NAFLD, we found that their levels of free triiodothyronine (FT3) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) were higher than those in individuals without NAFLD, which confirmed that these patients had TH resistance-like manifestations [8].