PTX3 and renal fibrosis: This association of all-cause mortality with the PTX3 levels is significantly strong even after adjustment of a HR for the confounding factors plus all other risk factors in the study, including nutritional, cardiac, and renal fibrosis markers, lipid profile, and adipokines (HR = 1.633 (1.207–2.209), p = 0.001), which was not observed for any other inflammatory marker.