ALB and chronic kidney disease: Around 10% of the adult population has chronic kidney disease (CKD), which is diagnosed when the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) falls below 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 or the urinary albumin:creatinine ratio (UACR) rises above 30 mg/g or there is other evidence of kidney injury, for more than 3 months, even in the presence of normal GFR [1].The thresholds for eGFR and albuminuria are not arbitrary: they signal the point when kidney injury results in both a higher risk of death and in a higher risk of CKD progression to end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) [2,3].