“…Similar to SAF studies, higher odds of poor muscle-related outcomes with higher levels of circulating AGEs were independent of cardiometabolic and renal diseases or related biomarkers, including CVD (Sun et al, 2012;Whitson et al, 2014), CVD medication (Ebert et al, 2019), diabetes mellitus (Dalal et al, 2009;Ebert et al, 2019;Sun et al, 2012), fasting glucose (Kim et al, 2018), HbA1c (Moriwaki et al, 2021), and serum creatinine (Ebert et al, 2019;Yang et al, 2019). These conditions have been associated with higher levels of circulating AGEs in the literature (Heidari et al, 2020;Kizer et al, 2014;Yubero-Serrano, Pérez-Martínez, 2020). The findings about the role of RAGEs in muscle mass and physical functioning were inconclusive (Dalal et al, 2009;Ebert et al, 2019;Kim et al, 2018;Moriwaki et al, 2021).…”