[Retracted] Long-Term Carbohydrate-Containing Late-Evening Snack Significantly Improves the Ratio of Branched Chain Amino Acids to Aromatic Amino Acids in Adults with Liver Cirrhosis due to Hepatitis B

Table 6

Changes of ALB, PALB, and NH₃ before and after late-evening snacks in patients with cirrhosis of different Child-Pugh grades ().

	Baseline	1st month	3rd month	6th month
Child-Pugh A ()
ALB (g/L)					1.082	0.348
PALB (mg/L)					0.131	0.832
NH3 (μmol/L)					0.358	0.672
Child-Pugh B ()
ALB (g/L)					3.742	0.015
PALB (mg/L)					3.782	0.026
NH3 (μmol/L)					2.118	0.044
Child-Pugh C ()
ALB (g/L)					5.782	0.006
PALB (mg/L)					5.438	0.007
NH3 (μmol/L)					3.784	0.023

Abbreviations: ALB: albumin; PALB: prealbumin; NH₃: ammonemia.