These findings were confirmed when considering the Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG version 24), when the lowest values of albumin (≤3.0 mg/dL) were found, as might be expected, for main surgeries such as major cardiothoracic surgeries (DRG104) and hip and femur surgery (DRG210), as well as for cirrhosis and alcoholic hepatitis (DRG202). This evidence concerns the gene ALB and alcoholic hepatitis.