FGF23 and anemia: Aside from conventional risk factors such as older age, diabetes, hypertension, smoking, and dyslipidemia (27), some CKD-specific nonconventional factors such as albuminuria (28), LVH (29), fibroblast growth factor 23 (30), deranged mineral metabolism (31), anemia (32) and inflammation (33) may all contribute to CVD.