ALB and diabetes mellitus: However, after adjusting for confounding factors in Models 2 (age, sex, and race) and 3 (age, sex, race, race, BMI, PIR, educational level, marital status, smoked at least 100 cigarettes, hypertension status, diabetes status, eGFR, moderate or vigorous activity, alcohol consumption, AST/ALT, Albumin/Globulin, GGT, ALP, LDH, Total bilirubin, Uric acid, HbA1c, Total cholesterol and hsCRP, the relationship between exposed variables and outcomes remained stable (Table 2).