The adjusted Cox regression survival curves [adjusted for age, sex, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, coronary artery disease, arteriovenous access type, dialysis vintage, systolic and diastolic blood pressures, albumin, log triglyceride, total cholesterol, hemoglobin, total calcium, phosphorous, CaXP product, potassium, uric acid, Kt/V, blood flow, and medications including ACEIs and/or ARBs, β-blocker, statin and aspirin] for overall survival in the patients according to the 75th percentile of △EMAT (1%) are shown in Fig. 1. This evidence concerns the gene ALB and diabetes mellitus.