ALB and diabetes mellitus: Considering age, sex, smoking history, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, hemodialysis vintage, cause of end-stage kidney disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, albumin, low-density lipoprotein, iron calcium, and C-reactive protein are important contributing factors to arterial stiffness and several of them identified in single linear regression analysis (Supplementary Table S2), so these covariates were controlled in multivariable linear regression models.