HBG1 and metabolic syndrome: Moreover, it has been found that HbGA is positively associated with serum triglycerides and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, suggesting that a higher level of HbGA is associated with dyslipidemia (17), which contradicts the recent results regarding the association between whole blood HbGA and CVD, reporting that higher levels of HbGA were associated with the lower prevalence of CVD and CVD-mortality (21).