Clinical characteristics measured included age, sex, body mass index (BMI), comorbidities of diabetes mellitus and pulmonary tuberculosis, alcohol use and smoking history, course of disease, preoperative hemoglobin, preoperative serum albumin, preoperative lymphocytes, preoperative erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), preoperative C-reactive protein (CRP), surgical approach, operating time, blood loss during surgery, postoperative hemoglobin, and postoperative serum albumin. The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is pulmonary tuberculosis.