TY - JOUR AU - Ebert, Helen AU - Lacruz, Maria Elena AU - Kluttig, Alexander AU - Simm, Andreas AU - Greiser, Karin Halina AU - Tiller, Daniel AU - Kartschmit, Nadja AU - Mikolajczyk, Rafael TI - 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. JO - BMC geriatrics VL - 19 IS - 1 SN - 1471-2318 CY - London PB - BioMed Central M1 - DKFZ-2019-02564 SP - 299 PY - 2019 AB - 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.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.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 LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 C6 - pmid:31684879 C2 - pmc:PMC6829799 DO - DOI:10.1186/s12877-019-1323-8 UR - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/147510 ER -