APOB and chronic kidney disease: After adjusting for age, sex, BMI, hypertension, diabetes, hyperuricemia, TG, TC, WBC, HGB, alcohol use, and smoke status, the baseline ApoB increase was still correlated with the occurrence of CKD (HR, 1.61; 95% CI: 1.02-2.54) (P = 0.042) (Table 4).