ALB and major depressive disorder: It may also be that other variables that may have had a stronger association with fatigue (e.g., depression, albumin levels, inflammatory markers (e.g., haptoglobin, interleukin-1 receptor antagonist, soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor2 levels), and uncontrolled diarrhea, [14, 22, 27, 48]) were not included in the analysis.