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- Title
Advanced glycation end products and their ratio to soluble receptor are associated with limitations in physical functioning only in women: results from the CARLA cohort.
- Authors
Ebert, Helen; Lacruz, Maria Elena; Kluttig, Alexander; Simm, Andreas; Greiser, Karin Halina; Tiller, Daniel; Kartschmit, Nadja; Mikolajczyk, Rafael
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Advanced glycation end products (AGEs), modifications of proteins or amino acids, are increasingly produced and accumulated with age-related diseases. Recent studies suggested that the ratio of AGEs and their soluble receptor (sRAGE) is a more accurate biomarker for age-related diseases than each separately. We aim to investigate whether this also applies for physical functioning in a broad age-spectrum.<bold>Methods: </bold>AGE and sRAGE levels, and physical functioning (SF-12 questionnaire) of 967 men and 812 women (45-83 years) were measured in the CARLA study. We used ordinal logistic regression to examine associations between AGEs, sRAGE, and AGE/sRAGE ratio with physical functioning in sex- and age-stratified models.<bold>Results: </bold>Higher levels of AGEs and AGE/sRAGE ratio were associated with lower physical functioning only in women, even after consideration of classical lifestyle and age-related factors (education, BMI, smoking, alcohol consumption, diet, creatinine clearance, diabetes mellitus, lipid lowering and antihypertensive drugs) (odds ratio (OR) =0.86, 95%confidence interval = 0.74-0.98 and OR = 0.86, 95%CI = 0.75-0.98 for AGEs and AGE/sRAGE ratio respectively). We could not demonstrate a significant difference across age.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>We showed a sex-specific association between physical functioning and AGEs and AGE/sRAGE, but no stronger associations of the latter with physical functioning. Further investigation is needed in the pathophysiology of this association.
- Subjects
ADVANCED glycation end-products; POST-translational modification
- Publication
BMC Geriatrics, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 1, pN.PAG
- ISSN
1471-2318
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1186/s12877-019-1323-8