Seventy-five percent of the patients had severe protein malnutrition, according to screening questionnaires [Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST), Nutritional Risk Screening-2002 (NRS-2000) or The Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM)] [9], and confirmation by low levels of serum proteins and edema, in absence of inflammation (C-reactive protein < 2 mg/dL). This evidence concerns the gene CRP and malnutrition.