To evaluate the independent predictors for prognosis, patients' profiles including age, gender, dialysis vintage, presence of DM, BMI, BP, Hb, Alb, Ca, P, CRP, max-IMT, ACI, CV events, and the serum N-glycan intensity of P49 were analyzed using the Cox regression uni- and multivariate analysis (Table 3). The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is diabetes mellitus.