CRP and acute kidney injury: After adjusting for confounding factors, including age, gender, race, hypertension, DM, BMI, CHF, AF, RF, VF, cardiogenic shock, albumin, WBC, BUN, serum calcium, Scr, glucose, RDW, CRP, cardiotonic, diuretic, and Sofa score, compared with the lowest quartiles, the odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for AKI across the quartiles were 0.729 (0.311, 1.600), 1.308 (0.688–2.478), and 2.221 (1.072, 4.576) for SAG (Table 3).