The correlation analysis between peritoneal protein and albumin loss and the studied parameters, depending on the presence of DM, confirmed a significant association with small solute transport for peritoneal albumin (r = 0.344; p = 0.005) and protein (r = 0.391; p = 0.001) loss (Table 3) just in non-diabetics. The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is diabetes mellitus.