CRP and nutritional deficiency disease: Malnutrition was positively associated with CRP levels (B = 1.64, SE = 0.53, p = 0.003), F(3, 83) = 3.67, p = 0.015, R2 = 0.12, and CRP, in turn, was positively associated with liver stiffness (B = 0.33, SE = 0.09, p < 0.001), after adjusting for malnutrition and covariates.