ALB and depressive disorder: The previous studies conducted by Singh et al and Jonsson et al showed low serum albumin levels have been associated with malnutrition.[92,93] BMI is one of the parameters used to estimate nutritional status, and BMI < 20.5 kg/m2 is a risk cutoff for malnutrition.[94] We reviewed the studies by Wang et al and Peng et al, and found that BMI was mentioned in the 2 studies.[61,73] However, BMI did not differ significantly between patients with depression and those without groups in patients with chronic renal failure undergoing hemodialysis and between depressed patients and the control groups.