ALB and hypertensive disorder: However, after adjusting for age, sex, BMI, smoking status, alcohol consumption, hypertension, diabetes, coronary artery disease, baseline kidney disease, baseline eGFR, daily protein intake, blood albumin and hemoglobin levels, the OR for the regular sodium intake group changed to 0.84 (95% CI 0.67–1.04), losing statistical significance (Table 2).