ALB and diabetes mellitus: The factors associated with FMD in multivariable stepwise linear regression analysis after adjusting for age, sex, DM, hypertension, coronary artery disease, cerebrovascular disease, BMI, fasting glucose, albumin, hemoglobin, triglycerides, total cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, calcium–phosphate product, ABI and baPWV are shown in Table 2.