CRP and kidney disorder: When multivariate analysis using Cox proportional hazards models in R was applied to the overall study population to adjust for time to first kidney disease-related hospitalization or death according to age, BMI, comorbidity, hs-CRP, electrolyte, lipid status, etc., only the hospitalization frequency within 1 year before the start of the study was significant (hazard ratio: 1.3972, p < 0.0001, CI: 1.2084–1.6156) (Table 2).