Additionally, age, race, education, smoking, alcohol consumption, hypertension, lipid-lowering medication use, albumin, TG, TC, LDL-C, fasting blood glucose, HbA1C, neutrophil count, lymphocyte count, platelet count, and NLR were significantly different between the 2 subgroups of patients who were grouped according to whether they had CKD. This evidence concerns the gene ALB and chronic kidney disease.