ALB and Sepsis: Finally, in our database of surgical and critically ill patients, in which we found relatively tight covariation of BChE-A with albumin and cholesterol (characterizing these three components as “negative” components of the acute phase response), the following unpublished regression showed that in the presence of sepsis BChE-A underwent a greater fall for any given albumin and cholesterol level:(1)BChE‐A=307.97·1.07albumin·1.06cholesterol·0.83SEPSISn = 421; r2 = 0.65; p < 0.001 for all coefficients and whole regression: