To avoid the influence of hypoalbuminemia (< 3.8 g/dL) [11], the association between height loss and serum albumin among participants without hypoalbuminemia was also evaluated and was found to be essentially the same, with fully adjusted corresponding ORs (95%CIs) of 0.92 (0.86, 0.98) in men (n = 4993) and 0.86 (0.78, 0.94) in women (n = 2631). Here, ALB is linked to Hypoalbuminemia.