ALB and diabetes mellitus: During the decade 2000–2010, several studies proved a greater mortality for patients with indwelling CVCs as compared to nAVF bearing patients [10,11,12,39,40] although there was a European investigation by Di Iorio et al. [41] claiming absent differences in mortality after adjusting by age, sex, poor nutritional status, diabetes, hemoglobin, albumin and other comorbidities.