LEP and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: There were a few studies on adipokines as predictors of NAFLD; for example, Kim et al. [26] also reported that there was an inverse correlation between 1 μg/ml increase in total and high-molecular-weight (HMW) adiponectin and the odds for NAFLD prevalence in a Korean population (25% and 39%, respectively), and serum leptin level was found to be an independent predictor for NAFLD.