% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Ebert:147510, author = {H. Ebert and M. E. Lacruz and A. Kluttig and A. Simm and K. H. Greiser$^*$ and D. Tiller and N. Kartschmit and R. Mikolajczyk}, title = {{A}dvanced glycation end products and their ratio to soluble receptor are associated with limitations in physical functioning only in women: results from the {CARLA} cohort.}, journal = {BMC geriatrics}, volume = {19}, number = {1}, issn = {1471-2318}, address = {London}, publisher = {BioMed Central}, reportid = {DKFZ-2019-02564}, pages = {299}, year = {2019}, abstract = {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, $95\%confidence$ 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.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.}, cin = {C020}, ddc = {610}, cid = {I:(DE-He78)C020-20160331}, pnm = {313 - Cancer risk factors and prevention (POF3-313)}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-313}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, pubmed = {pmid:31684879}, pmc = {pmc:PMC6829799}, doi = {10.1186/s12877-019-1323-8}, url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/147510}, }