ALB and Hypertension: After stepwise regression factors associated with 1-year and 3-year mortality were: age at incidence, place of birth, residence, BMI, self-sufficiency, cause of ESRD, severe hypertension, heart disease, peripheral vascular diseases, cancer, liver disease, dementia and psychiatric disease, type of vascular access, haemoglobin, serum creatinine, serum albumin.