There were no significant differences between study groups with respect to the baseline characteristics including age, diabetes duration, gender, education level, employment, PAL, body weight, medications (Table 2), dietary intakes of selected nutrients (Table 3), glycemic parameters, hs-CRP, LPS (Table 4), TAC, SOD, GPX, AGEs, s-RAGE, MDA, CML, pentosidine, and uric acid (Table 5) (all P > 0.05). This evidence concerns the gene AGER and diabetes mellitus.