AGEs were positively correlated with age, blood uric acid, disease course, systolic blood pressure, the risk scores of the four major complications of diabetes, renal function indicators (serum creatinine, Cystatin C, homocysteine, the ratio of urinary albumin and creatinine, urinary microalbumin, α-microglobulin, urinary transferrin, urinary immunoglobulin), inflammatory indicators (white blood cell count, neutrophil count, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, C-reactive protein), and TCSS score. This evidence concerns the gene CST3 and diabetes mellitus.