ALB and infection: <h4>Background</h4>Older adults with severe dysphagia who rely on long-term enteral nutrition face high mortality risk, yet the predictive value of albumin-related nutritional markers-including the C-reactive protein-albumin-lymphocyte (CALLY) score, prognostic nutritional index (PNI), controlling nutritional status (CONUT), C-reactive protein/albumin ratio (CAR), and lymphocyte-albumin (LA)-for all-cause and infection-specific death remains unclear.