Our findings suggest that age, diabetes mellitus, and the so-called novel risk factors for cardiovascular disease (such as inflammation, albumin-corrected calcium, and albumin) are associated with survival; this is similar to other studies [37,38], we extended these observations to include levels of serum OPG, as in other studies, OPG was associated with rapid progression of vascular calcification and was a predictor of all-cause mortality in patients on HD and PD [39]. The gene discussed is ALB; the disease is diabetes mellitus.