TABLE 1.

Characteristics of patients in the study.

	Healthy donors, n = 4	Group of patients with steatosis, n = 6	Group of patients with NASH, n = 6
	1	2	3
Sex (female/male)	2/2	3/3	4/2
Age	32.50 ± 9.50	41.75 ± 9.91	43.50 ± 11.50
BMI, kg/m2	21.88 ± 0.66	51.05 ± 10.04 p 1-2**	42.95 ± 4.67 p 1-3***

**p < 0.001, ***p < 0.0001; significance was determined using the t-test (mean ± SD).