CRP and lung disorder: In addition, patients who used nasogastric tube (50%) had a presence of pulmonary disease (16%) or had high levels of WBC (15.2%), ESR (15.7%), and CRP (11.8%); those whose respiratory culture had bacteria in sputum (28.9%) and who were hospitalized for more than two times (15.9%) had a significant higher risk of hospital-acquired pneumonia (p ≤ 0.05) (Table 6).