Levels of CRP were more closely related to the established adverse features of MF, which are in part or indirectly taken into account by current models, e.g., peripheral blasts, more severe anemia and/or transfusion-dependency or thrombocytopenia < 100 × 109/L, whereas only lower albumin levels were associated with a lower BMI as a measure of MF-induced cachexia. This evidence concerns the gene ALB and Cachexia.