“…Advanced glycation end products (AGEs), a major source of freeradical production (Nowotny, Jung, Höhn, Weber, & Grune, 2015) in diabetes, in particular, may increase their damage (Saremi et al, 2017). Hyperglycemia is a potent stimulator for generating AGEs and intensifies the AGEs-RAGEs (receptor for AGEs) crosstalk that increases free-radical production (Yamagishi, 2018); lowering the blood glucose decreases AGE production and therefore free-radical generation (Merhi, Thornton, Bennett-Toomey, Hennebold, & Buyuk, 2017). Maeda, Matsui, Takeuchi, and Yamagishi (2013) demonstrated that SGLT2 inhibitors induced normoglycemia, thus decreasing AGE generation with a reduction in oxidative stress, and empagliflozin improved cardiac function by reducing AGE generation and lowering oxidative damage (Table 2; Habibi et al, 2017).…”