Glycated Albumin Is a Better Glycemic Indicator than Glycated Hemoglobin Values in Hemodialysis Patients with Diabetes

Inaba, Masaaki; Okuno, Senji; Kumeda, Yasuro; Yamada, Shinsuke; Imanishi, Yasuo; Tabata, Tsutomu; Okamura, Mikio; Okada, Shigeki; Yamakawa, Tomoyuki; Ishimura, Eiji; Nishizawà, Yoshiki

doi:10.1681/asn.2006070772

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Glycated Albumin Is a Better Glycemic Indicator than Glycated Hemoglobin Values in Hemodialysis Patients with Diabetes

Published in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology • Feb 3, 2007

Authors:

Masaaki Inaba

Senji Okuno

Yasuro Kumeda

Abstract

The significance of glycated albumin (GA), compared with casual plasma glucose (PG) and glycated hemoglobin (HbA(1c)), was evaluated as an indicator of the glycemic control state in hemodialysis (HD) patients with diabetes. The mean PG, GA, and HbA(1c) levels were 164.5 +/- 55.7 mg/dl, 22.5 +/- 7.5%...

Subject

Glycemic

Internal medicine

Medicine

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