ALB and diabetic kidney disease: Diabetic kidney disease (DKD), formerly known as diabetic nephropathy (DN), is one of the most common chronic microvascular complications of diabetes mellitus, leading to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) [1], involving various renal sections mainly of glomerulus [2], and regarding urinary albumin to creatinine ratio (UACR) as one of the effective noninvasive detection methods [3–5].