ALB and diabetes mellitus: A considerable percentage of participants had difficulty correctly identifying markers such as glucose and glycated hemoglobin levels for diabetes diagnosis (60% error rate) and cholesterol levels indicating dyslipidemia (70% error rate), and knowledge gaps were found among PTs in malnutrition detection, with 87% lacking awareness of serum albumin’s importance and 70% being unfamiliar with weight loss percentages as indicators of decline.