منابع مشابه
Hyperuricemia, Cardiovascular Disease, and Hypertension.
In recent years, there has been an increase in the prevalence of hyperuricemia, and the latter has attracted attention as an adult lifestyle-associated disease, together with hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia. Although hyperuricemia is known to be an independent risk factor for hypertension, whether it is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease remains controversial. Recent...
متن کاملHyperuricemia in severe pulmonary hypertension.
STUDY OBJECTIVE Hyperuricemia occurs frequently in patients with myeloproliferative and lymphoproliferative disorders and in patients with congenital heart disease associated with polycythemia. Whether hyperuricemia is common in patients with severe pulmonary hypertension is not known. DESIGN, PATIENTS, MEASUREMENTS In the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at the University of Colorado Health Sci...
متن کاملHyperuricemia in childhood primary hypertension.
Experimental animal models suggest that uric acid might have a pathogenic role in the early development of primary hypertension. We hypothesized that serum uric acid is correlated with blood pressure in children with new-onset, untreated, primary hypertension. We evaluated 125 consecutive children referred to the Baylor Pediatric Renal Program for evaluation of hypertension. None of the subject...
متن کاملHyperuricemia and hypertension: a confluence of concepts.
R arely in clinical medicine is it possible to define a distinct laboratory abnormality associated, for unknown reasons, with a specific disease entity and to have one group of tenacious investigators resolve the conundrum of contributing mechanisms. Nonetheless, in this issue of Hypertension such is the case as presented in the investigations of Soletsky and Feig. 1 These investigators have no...
متن کاملTreatment of hyperuricemia in essential hypertension.
Treatment of Hyperuricemia in Essential Hypertension To the Editor: The 2 recent articles linking an elevated serum uric acid level with an increased risk of developing hypertension are of great interest.1,2 The application of the key finding in these 2 studies, that is, a graded increase in risk of developing essential hypertension based on the serum uric acid level, is likely to be more far r...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Indian Heart Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0019-4832
DOI: 10.1016/j.ihj.2017.09.111