Weighted Pearson correlation analysis suggested that the TyG index was consistently positively correlated with age, gender, race, smoking status, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, WC, FPG, TG, TC, LDL-c, Scr, urinary albumin, UACR, albuminuria, and negatively correlated with HDL-c, urinary creatinine, and eGFR, whether unadjusted, or adjusted for log (HOMA-IR), metabolic syndrome (P<0.001) (Table 5). The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is diabetes mellitus.