Evaluation of Relevance between Advanced Glycation End Products and Diabetic Retinopathy Stages Using Skin Autofluorescence

• Published in: Antioxidants Vol. 9; no. 11; p. 1100
• Main Authors: Takayanagi, Yuji, Yamanaka, Mikihiro, Fujihara, Jo, Matsuoka, Yotaro, Gohto, Yuko, Obana, Akira, Tanito, Masaki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 09.11.2020; MDPI
• Subjects: Acuity; advanced glycation end products (AGEs); Advanced glycosylation end products; Age; AGEs Sensor; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Diabetic retinopathy; Glaucoma; Glycosylation; Hospitals; Hyperglycemia; Hypertension; Insulin; neovascular glaucoma; Patients; Physiological aspects; Population studies; proliferative diabetic retinopathy; Retinopathy; Risk factors; Sensors; Skin; skin autofluorescence (sAF); Japan; United States > US

Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are thought to play important roles in the pathogenesis of diabetic microangiopathy, particularly in the progression of diabetic retinopathy (DR). We assessed the levels of skin autofluorescence (sAF) to assess the association between AGEs and DR stages. A tota...