The relative risk of death, during the 5 years follow up, was independently associated with baseline presence of PEWSGA (RR = 1.17; 95% CI, 1.11–1.23, p<0.0001) after adjustments for age, gender, DM, CVD, %HGS, LBMI, albumin, hsCRP, calendar year and RRT in 1031 patients (Table 3). This evidence concerns the gene ALB and diabetes mellitus.