ALB and chronic kidney disease: Several risk factors of developing AKI for DKA patients have been investigated over the past decade, including older age, increased glucose, serum uric acid, white blood cell count (WBC), and hyperchloremia, heart rate (HR); decreased pH, serum albumin, bicarbonate, sodium; combined with coma on admission and preexisting chronic kidney diseases (CKD) [8, 9, 11].