ALB and malnutrition: Among the predictors of malnutrition, TIBC (B = -0.021, P value < 0.001), ferritin (B = -0.008, P value = 0.001) and albumin (B = -1.361, P value = 0.004) were significant negative predictors of SGA score, indicating that higher values of these variables were associated with lower nutritional status scores.