The differences in patients’ sex, age, BMI, history of hypertension, history of diabetes mellitus, hepatic encephalopathy, ascites, Child-Pugh score, WBC count, and HB, PLT, ALT, TB, SCr, PT, CRP, PCT, and PNI levels were not statistically significant (p > 0.05) (Table 2). The gene discussed is CRP; the disease is Ascites.