ALB and coronary artery disorder: After multivariate adjustment for age, sex, HD vintage, serum albumin, CAD , Kt/V, access type and BMI; the independent predictors of mortality were; age (year) (HR: 1.02; 95% CI: 1.00-1.04, P = 0.05), serum albumin (g/dL) (HR: 0.18; 95% CI: 0.08-0.38, P ≤ 0.001), CAD (HR: 4.75; 95% CI: 1.67-13.51, P = 0.003), and a trend for catheter assess (HR: 1.70; 95% CI: 0.93-3.13, P = 0.08; Figure 2).