CRP and diabetes mellitus: Other significant variables include age (HR 1.072, P 0.0003), diabetes mellitus (HR 4.011, P 0.002), eGFR (HR 0.966, P 0.01), systolic blood pressure (HR 1.025, P 0.02), hemoglobin (HR 0.743, P 0.02), C-reactive protein (Ln) (HR 1.532, P 0.02) and PTH (Ln) (HR 1.680, P 0.01).