As shown in Table 2, after adjusting for age, sex, diabetes, history of CVD, hypertension, eGFR, BMI, CCI, white blood cells, hemoglobin, platelet, serum albumin, total cholesterol, uric acid and the use of lipid-lowering agents, the TG/HDL-C ratio remained associated with all-cause and CV mortality. Here, ALB is linked to diabetes mellitus.