ALB and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Wada et al. previously reported a historical cohort study of Japanese patients with T2DM, showing that increased urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio levels were closely associated with the increase in risks for renal and cardiovascular events, as well as all-cause mortality, whereas eGFR was not associated in cases of patients with eGFR over 30 mL/min/1.73 m2 [17].