ALB and Miyoshi myopathy: Meng et al., in their analysis of 166 MM patients, used a cutoff of 14% and reported that high RDW correlated with poor prognostic factors such as low hemoglobin, low platelet counts, increased sedimentation rate, low albumin, elevated LDH, high creatinine and calcium levels, and increased bone marrow plasma cell infiltration (p<0.05) [15].