Shah et al. recently conducted 1,174 ICU patients who were discharged from two mixed medical and surgical ICUs in the United Kingdom (UK) and found that patients discharged from ICU with anaemia (Hb < 10 g/dL) had a longer post-ICU hospital length of stay compared with those in critically patients without anaemia (8 vs 3 days, p=0.0017). The gene discussed is GSTM1; the disease is anemia.