ALB and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Further, when we divided our cohort into quartiles according to median values of RDW and NLR, we found that compared to the lowest quartile, patients with values above median of both RWD and NLR had significantly higher dp-ucMGP, prevalence of CVD, longer duration of T2DM, lower diastolic/mean and central diastolic BP, lower calcium and albumin and higher CRP and phosphorus, known traditional and non-traditional CV risk factors.