ALB and diabetes mellitus: Other significant variables include age (HR 1.064, P 0.002), systolic blood pressure (HR 1.021, P 0.04), prior cardiovascular disease (HR 5.880, P < 0.0001), presence of diabetes mellitus (HR 4.420, P 0.0003), albumin (HR 0.872, P 0.0003), eGFR (HR 0.973, P 0.02), 24 h proteinuria (Ln) (HR 1.298, P 0.009).