ALB and diabetes mellitus: Multivariate Cox regression analysis showed serum Angpt-2/Angpt-1 ratio was an independent predictor of cardiovascular mortality (HR = 2.467, 95%CI 1.243–4.895, p = .010; shown in Table 3) and all-cause mortality (HR = 1.486, 95%CI 1.038–2.127, p = .031; shown in Table 4) after adjusting for gender, age, comorbid with CVD, diabetes, hemoglobin, serum albumin, hs-CRP, and residual renal function.