ALB and type 2 diabetes mellitus: Therefore, the objective of this work was to evaluate the correlation between serum fAGEs levels and CIMT, smoking or clinical parameters, such as hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), serum uric acid (UA), triglyceride (TG), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), cholesterol (CHO), urinary albumin/creatinine ratio (UACR), in patients with T2DM, thereby providing some valuable references and guidelines for understanding the development and progression of diabetic complications.