IL21 and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: While in the group of obese children with NAFLD, IL-17 was the most connected inflammatory marker in the networks, which was positively correlated with AST, ALT, IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, IL-21, and TNF-α and was negatively correlated with FBG (Figure 1; Supplementary Tables 2, 3).