Statistical differences across the four NHHR quartiles were observed in various demographic and clinical parameters, including age, gender, race, education level, marital status, family poverty income ratio, BMI, waist circumference, smoking status, alcohol consumption, hypertension, diabetes, aspartate transaminase (AST), alanine transaminase (ALT), total protein, albumin, serum uric acid, serum urea nitrogen, serum creatinine, TC, HDL-C, urinary albumin, urinary creatinine, and ACR (Table 1). Here, ALB is linked to Hypertension.