ALB and diabetes mellitus: TGs were also inversely associated with infectious mortality in the univariate model (HR: 0.75; 95% CI: 0.69–0.81; Table 2), as well as in the models adjusted for demographics, diabetes, serum creatinine, and CRP (Fig. 4, models 1–3 and 5) but not following adjustment for serum albumin (Fig. 4, models 4 and 6).