ALB and infection: In patients on HD, the NRI for the incremental combination of inflammatory markers and conventional risk factors was maximized for the combination of serum albumin and hsCRP for all-cause (19.0%, P < 0.001) and cardiovascular mortalities (18.5%, P = 0.02) and for the combination of serum albumin, hsCRP, WBC, and ferritin for infection-related mortality (27.1%, P < 0.001).