ALB and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: To further confirm that the findings are robust to potential confounders in fully adjusted Model II, we performed the subgroup analyses while stratifying by sex, age, BMI, neutrophil count, hemoglobin, albumin, lymphocyte count, high density lipoprotien, category of diagnosis, supplementing vitamin D categorical, season of blood collection, year of blood collection and ICC (Table 5).