Table 7.

Result of Goodman Kruskal’s gamma correlation of biochemical data.

GLIM Category		GLIM Moderate Malnutrition		GLIM Severe Malnutrition		γ *	z	p-Value
		n	%	n	%
Albumin	Nourished	15	44.1	36	20.5	0.51	4.666	<0.001
	Mild malnutrition	16	47.1	90	51.1
	Moderate malnutrition	3	8.8	29	16.5
	Severe malnutrition	0	0.0	21	11.9
TLC	No depletion	1	2.9	23	13.1	−0.36	−3.072	0.002
	Moderate depletion	17	50.0	98	55.7
	Mild depletion	16	47.1	55	31.3
CRP 1 [17]	Mild inflammation	2	5.9	2	1.1	0.69	2.757	0.006
	Severe inflammation	32	94.1	174	98.9
CRP 2 [2]	No inflammatory	12	35.3	27	15.3	0.50	4.074	<0.001
	Inflammatory	22	64.7	149	84.7
Total protein	Below norms	2	6.1	22	12.6	−0.40	−2.162	0.031
	In norm	30	90.9	150	85.7
	Above norms	1	3.0	3	1.7

¹ Classification based on Pourhassan et al. ² Classification based on ESPEN. * Goodman Kruskal’s gamma correlation.