Liu et al. [11] demonstrated that after adjusting for effectors of age, gender, diabetes, type of vascular access at initiation, clinical signs, and/or symptoms at the initiation of dialysis, and serum albumin, there was no significant difference in survival rate between the 3 groups (< 4 mL/min/1.73 m2 was used as the reference, in comparison with 4–8 mL/min/1.73 m2 [p = 0.681] and > 8 mL/min/1.73 m2 [p = 0.403]). Here, ALB is linked to diabetes mellitus.