TNF and Hypoalbuminemia: Hotelling's t [2] analysis (Table 2) revealed significant differences among the presurgical albumin infusion (B), presurgical normal protein diet (C), and hypoalbuminemia (D and E) diet groups in terms of serum levels of albumin, TNF-α, IL-1, IL-6, CRP, and MMP-8 (P=0.01).