In a retrospective cohort study of 16,057 HD subjects treated at 564 NephroCare centers in EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa; n = 15,127) and Latin America (n = 930), in terms of laboratory parameters, subjects with higher serum UA levels also had higher values for phosphate, albumin, creatinine, total cholesterol, triglycerides, nPCR, and PTH hormone [7]. This evidence concerns the gene ALB and Huntington disease.