To our knowledge, risk factors associated with subsequent BSI have not previously been investigated; however, there are several studies to support the association between diabetes [8, 12, 15, 31–33] and low plasma albumin [12, 15, 31, 34–39], and the risk of infections, in which the latter risk factor in part may be interpreted as a surrogate marker of liver disease [40, 41]. The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is diabetes mellitus.