According to the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC report 2017; 30.3 million Americans – 9.4 percent of the U.S. population had diabetes in 2015. Home blood glucose monitoring is useful to determine the daily adjustments in treatment or insulin intake. It...

Glycated Albumin

GA reflected changes in glycemic control in less than 2 weeks, 11 weeks earlier than HbA1c.

A just-published multi-author article in the Journal of Diabetes Complications concluded “glycated albumin is superior to glycated hemoglobin for glycemic control assessment at a...

A multicenter study in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice investigated whether there was a relationship between GA and HbA1c and how the GA/HbA1c ratio is associated with glucose indices.  The study concluded, “the relationship between GA and HbA1c was strong. [Al...

A recent report in the Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications investigated whether glycated albumin (GA) and HbA1c could “represent glycemic profiles in hemodialysis.” The study on patients with hemodialysis determined that “HbA1c correlates [with] the average gluco...

An article in Pediatrics and Neonatology “investigat[ed] whether glycated albumin is a useful glycemic marker…[when] monitoring glycemic control in pregnant women with…gestational diabetes mellitus.” The retrospective, Japanese study concluded “glycated albumin is a us...

A research article published in PLOS One tested “the possibility that measurement of serum glycated albumin (GA) [could] assess the need for” an oral glucose test (OGTT) better than HbA1c. The six yearlong study concluded, “In the diagnosis of diabetes, serum GA measur...

An article in BioMed Research International “investigated whether GA increases with time relative to glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and the association between GA and beta-cell function.” The study concluded that glycated albumin levels do increase relative to HbA1c over...