ALB and type 2 diabetes mellitus: While HbA1c measurements have been more extensively employed in clinical laboratories as an adjunct to blood glucose determinations, studies over the past decade have suggested that glycated albumin remains an “underestimated marker of diabetes” [21] and is, in fact, “a better indicator for glucose excursion than glycated hemoglobin in type 1 and type 2 diabetes” [22].