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Published in final edited form as: Endocr Pract. 2015 Jul 27;21(11):1195–1203. doi: 10.4158/EP14570.OR

Table 2. Spearman’s Correlations Between GA and Other Glycemic Indices.

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 6	Week 8	Week 12
GA vs.
FPG	0.206	0.431^a	0.154	0.290	0.133	0.281	0.471^a
FRA	0.866^a	0.913^a	0.908^a	0.949^a	0.964^a	0.950^a	0.952^a
FRA/ALB	0.908^a	0.948^a	0.943^a	0.945^a	0.931^a	0.959^a	0.925^a
A1C	0.649^a	0.538^a	0.484^a	0.424^a	0.592^a	0.701^a	0.755^a
SMBG Method 1	0.375^a	0.524^a	0.590^a	0.429^a	0.213	0.477^a	0.562^a
SMBG Method 2	0.533^a	0.559^a	0.455^a	0.464^a	0.668^a	0.633^a	0.671^a
CGM	0.449^a	0.495^a	0.655^a	0.487^a
A1C vs.
FPG	0.062	0.272	−0.006	0.120	0.229	0.301	0.175
FRA	0.414^a	0.335	0.262	0.247	0.486^a	0.585^a	0.641^a
FRA/ALB	0.560^a	0.510^a	0.405^a	0.422^a	0.577^a	0.756^a	0.712^a
GA	0.649^a	0.538^a	0.484^a	0.424^a	0.592^a	0.701^a	0.755^a
SMBG Method 1	0.211	0.386^a	0.509^a	0.270	0.536^a	0.531^a	0.386
SMBG Method 2	0.480^a	0.322	0.489^a	0.341	0.647^a	0.769^a	0.649^a
CGM	0.114	0.348	0.421^a	0.271

Abbreviations: A1C = hemoglobin A1C; CGM = continuous glucose monitoring; FPG = fasting plasma glucose; FRA = fructosamine; FRA/ALB = albumin-corrected fructosamine; GA = glycated albumin; SMBG = self-monitoring of blood glucose.

P<.05 for correlation.