Furthermore, it should be noted that, in terms of the prognostic values of BMI, Alb and TG, we have observed similar results that BMI, Alb and TG are positively correlated with overall survival time (month) among these patients with gastric cancer using scatter diagram method (Fig 6), in keeping with the survival curves analyzed using Kaplan-Meier method (Figs 3, 4 and 5). The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is gastric cancer.