FABP1 and fibrosis: Fibrosis stages showed significant association with the serum L-FABP (P-value <0.0001) in both univariable and multivariable analysis, while the Ultrasonographic diagnosis showed a significant association in the univariable analysis but after adjusting for the fibrosis stages in the multivariable analysis, the relationship was not significant as shown in Table 2, Figs 1 and 2