Postoperative nutrition status and inflammation status at POD7, one month, and three months after gastrectomy
As shown in Supplementary Table 1, at POD7 after gastrectomy, mean (standard deviation [SD]) serum levels of albumin were 3.3 (0.4) and 3.5 (0.5) g/dL in the BCAA and control groups, respectively, which were no different (At 7 POD, 1 month, and 3 months after gastrectomy, there was no difference in the mean (SD) serum levels of prealbumin between the BCAA group and the control group (POD7, 16.9 [4.0] vs. 16.4 [3.9] mg/dL, Finally, there were no significant differences in the mean number of white blood cells at POD7, 1 month, and 3 months postgastrectomy (