ArticleEuropean journal of nutrition2025
Advanced glycation end-product intake predicts insulin resistance in a sex-dependent fashion.
Article in European journal of nutrition, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- The AGE-RAGE Pathway in Endometriosis: A Focused Mechanistic Review and Structured Evidence Map.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Molecular Framework of the Onset and Progression of Skeletal Muscle Aging.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
Abstract
purposeDietary advanced glycation end products (AGEs) have been implicated in promoting insulin resistance. However, their impact on insulin resistance in a mixed population made up of males and females remains controversial. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the relationship between dietary AGEs and insulin resistance may be sex-dependent.
methods195 males and 239 females were included in this cross-sectional study. Study participants underwent anthropometric and metabolic assessments. AGE intake was estimated using food frequency questionnaires and databases reporting AGE content in individual food items. The relationship between AGE intake and insulin resistance, estimated using HOMA-IR, was assessed using Pearson correlation test. The predictive power of dietary AGEs towards HOMA-IR was investigated using stepwise linear regression.
resultsAGE intake correlated positively with HOMA-IR in females (p < 0.01) but not in male study participants (p > 0.05). Moreover, AGE intake was able to increase the predictive power of BMI towards insulin resistance in females but not males. Instead, anthropometric variables were the only discriminants able to predict insulin resistance in males.
conclusionDietary AGEs exert a sex-dependent effect on insulin resistance as their intake is associated with and able to predict HOMA-IR in females but not males. This suggests that females may be more susceptible to the deleterious impact of these glycotoxins on insulin sensitivity. Nevertheless, considering this study not involving a nutritional intervention to directly elucidate whether the effect of AGEs on insulin resistance is sex-dependent, further studies are warranted to confirm the present findings.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.