The diagnosis of the nutritional status through the objective and subjective methodsshowed that the prevalence of malnutrition was 40.6% (n=28) through albumin, 73.9%(n=51) through the TLC, 49.2% (n=34) through the SGA, and only 7.2% (n=05) through theBMI ( Table 2 ). The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is malnutrition.