Table 3. Descriptive analysis and comparison of comorbidities with serum albumin.

Variables/ Comorbidities	Category	Albumin * Low (n=20)	Albumin * Normal (n=68)	p-value
Number of comorbidities	X±DP	1.11 ± 0.81	0.63 ± 1.08	0.00661
Diabetes
No	N (%)	13 (68.4%)	56 (87.5%)	0.07783
Yes	N (%)	6 (31.6%)	8 (12.5%)
Smoking
No	N (%)	17 (89.5%)	56 (87.5%)	1.00003
Yes	N (%)	2 (10.5%)	8 (12.5%)
Alcoholism
No	N (%)	16 (84.2%)	60 (93.8%)	0.19333
Yes	N (%)	3 (15.8%)	4 (6.3%)
Arterial hypertension
No	N (%)	9 (47.4%)	46 (71.9%)	0.04732
Yes	N (%)	10 (52.6%)	18 (28.1%)
Comorbidities
No	N (%)	5 (26.3%)	43 (67.2%)	0.00152
Yes	N (%)	14 (73.7%)	21 (32.8%)
Number of comorbidities grouped
0	N (%)	5 (26.3%)	43 (67.2%)	0.00463
1	N (%)	7 (36.8%)	10 (15.6%)
2-4	N (%)	7 (36.8%)	11 (17.2%)

*Albumin. ¹ Mann-Whitney test; ² Chi-square test; ³ Fisher›s exact test.