ALB and brain infarction: Clinical data of 164 hospitalized patients with AECOPD who received treatment in the department of respiratory medicine of Yiwu Central Hospital between January 2022 and January 2024 were reviewed retrospectively, including the diagnosis, gender, age, BMI, use of inhaled corticosteroids, the duration of using antibiotics, use of carbapenem antibiotics, random blood glucose, albumin level, the presence or absence of cerebral infarction aspiration, cancer chemoradiotherapy, complicated cardiovascular disease, procalcitonin level, pulmonary function grade, and surviving time.