CRP and cancer: Some confounders were associated with high in-hospital mortality: sex, age, severe or moderate thinness, low Barthel index score, low systolic blood pressure, high Japan Coma Scale score, SpO2, hospitalization within 90 days, CRP level (200 mg/L) or the extent of consolidation on chest radiography (≥2/3 of one lung), and cancer and liver disease as comorbidities.