ALB and metabolic syndrome: To date, only one prospective cohort study has attempted to determine the association between urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (UACR) estimated by a single morning urine sample and the development of MetS, which reported that compared with participants with first tertile of UACR, the hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for MetS was 1.01 (0.71–1.45) and 1.57 (1.14–2.18) for participants in the second and third tertiles, respectively[7].