As shown in Supplementary Table 2, no statistically significant trend was observed across categories of Alb-UP serum levels (low level, 0– <0.4; medium level, 0.4– <0.8; high level, 0.8–1.2), stratified by gender, age, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and previous ischemic heart diseases. The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is diabetes mellitus.