CRP and nutritional deficiency disease: Using malnutrition (yes, no) as the dependent variable in the regression analysis, CRP, age, Charlson Comorbidity Index, and male gender were independent predictors of malnutrition, with CRP explaining of the variance 5.7%, age explaining 2.9% of the variance, and CCI and male gender each explaining 0.4% of the variance (Table 2).