ADIPOQ and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Although adiponectin was not independently associated with MASLD or T2D within MASLD in neither univariate nor multivariate regression analyses (Table 3, Table 4, Table 5 and Table 6), it was the only adipocytokine to show a statistically significant difference between the groups, with the lowest levels observed in the MASLD + T2D group (Table 2).