ALB and diabetes mellitus: The results of our study showed that adherence to the MeDi adjusted for the effects of age, sex, time since transplantation and duration of dialysis treatment prior to the kidney transplantation if expressed as total MDSS score was associated with higher skeletal muscle mass and was higher in participants with DM, while if MeDi was expressed as binary variable (adherent vs. non-adherent participants), we observed significant associations with higher serum levels of albumins and phosphorus.