TG and Hepatic steatosis: Demir et al. (2016) suggested that hepatic degeneration can be caused by a lack of thyroid hormones. Therefore, hepatic steatosis may exist in hypothyroidism, even in subclinical cases, which is related to MALD in a dose-dependent manner (Tanase et al., 2020). Furthermore, Ayuob et al. (2019) suggested that hypothyroidism is independently linked to MALD regardless of the common metabolic risk factors.