ALB and diabetes mellitus: Additionally, after adjusting for age, sex, subtype, BMI, disease duration, total UMSARS score, OH, diabetes, hypertension, albumin, TG, HDL-C and LDL-C, the RCS analysis showed a non-linear relationship between serum TC level and survival with the lowest risk of death at the value of 4.38 mmol/L (Figure 1B).