In addition, participants with diabetes were more likely to be older, had a greater percentage of CVD, and higher levels of body mass index (BMI), hemoglobin A1c, triglyceride and RRF, and lower diastolic pressure, hemoglobin, serum albumin, serum prealbumin, normalized protein catabolic rate (nPCR), serum uric acid, phosphate and intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH). The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is diabetes mellitus.