Iron-export protein ferroportin 1 is downregulated, and iron-import proteins DMT1, transferrin receptor 1 (TfR1), and ferritin are upregulated in MASLD (Philpott, 2020; Mancias et al., 2014; Liu et al., 2022; Mitsuyoshi et al., 2009). Here, TFRC is linked to metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.