ALB and diabetes mellitus: Multivariate analysis conducted for these data showed increased HR with significant differences according to patient age (HR = 1.049, p = 0.0034) and diabetes (HR = 2.144, p = 0.0421), and with a decreased HR according to dialysis vintage (HR = 0.976, p = 0.0393) and serum albumin (HR = 0.471, p = 0.0480) (Table 3).