Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a condition characterized by abnormalities in kidney structure or function that persist for at least 3 months and have health implications, whose diagnostic thresholds are an estimated glomerular filtration rate of less than 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 and an albumin-creatinine ratio of 30 mg/g or more, as defined by the KDIGO 2012 guidelines (1), and been identified as a major global public health concern, with its prevalence and incidence increasing by 40% over the past 30 years due to global population growth and aging (2). Here, ALB is linked to chronic kidney disease.