Patients with proteinuria at admission were older and had a higher prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, fever as symptom, respiratory rate more than 24 cycles per minute (Table 1), aspartate amino transferase (ASAT) >40 UI/L, ferritin >300 ng/mL, procalcitonin (PCT) ≥0.5 ng/mL, C-reactive protein (CRP) >50 mg/L, brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) >300 pg/mL, troponin >28 ng/mL. This evidence concerns the gene NPPB and diabetes mellitus.