Impact Exerted by Nutritional Risk Screening on Clinical Outcome of Patients with Esophageal Cancer

Table 3

Comparison of serum albumin between two groups of patients who have no nutritional risk.

Group		Serum albumin
		1 day before operation	1 day after operation	3 days after operation	7 days after operation
Nutrition support	52	38.2 ± 2.6	33.1 ± 1.9	36.6 ± 2.3	38.1 ± 2.7
Nonnutrition support	52	37.9 ± 2.1	32.9 ± 2.0	34.1 ± 3.4	36.2 ± 2.1
	-	0.65	0.52	4.39	4.01
	-	0.519	0.602	<0.001	<0.001