It is used in many articles to balance treated groups across all risk factors [12, 19] Interestingly, before PSM, a high PoCONUT score was significantly associated with several host-related factors including higher total bilirubin and PreCONUT score, longer prothrombin time, lower hemoglobin, platelet, and white blood cell counts and higher incidence of liver cirrhosis. Here, F2 is linked to cirrhosis of liver.