While dietary AGEs in male correlated with fasting triglycerides (p = 0.034) but not with insulin resistance (Table 2; Fig. 1A), in females the intake of AGEs correlated positively with fasting blood insulin (p = 0.034) and HOMA-IR (p = 0.022) (Fig. 1B) and negatively with total (p = 0.005) and LDL-cholesterol (p = 0.002) (Table 2). This evidence concerns the gene INS and Insulin resistance.