BACKGROUND Few studies investigated serum uric acid levels in patients with acute Stelevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). The study was to assess the clinical value of serum uric acid levels in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). METHODS Totally 502 consecutive patients with STEMI were retrospectively studied from January 2005 to December 2010. The level of seru...

Elevated serum uric acid levels are a frequent finding in persons with obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular and kidney disease as well as in those with the cardiorenal metabolic syndrome (CRS). The increased consumption of a fructose-rich Western diet has contributed to the increasing incidence of the CRS, obesity and diabetes especially in industrialized populations. There is also increasing ...

BACKGROUND The role of uric acid is well known for the development of nephropathy and retinopathy in diabetic patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the serum uric acid levels in patients with or without diabetic neuropathy (DPN). METHODS Forty-two patients with DPN (case group) and 42 patients without DPN (control group) matched with regard to age, gender, body mass index (BMI) and ...

Introduction : Role of uric acid as a prognostic marker of atherosclerotic vascular diseases has remained a debatable issue. Since information on this aspect from south Asian population is rather scanty, we have evaluated prognostic significance of serum uric acid in acute ischaemic stroke, in an urban hospital of eastern India. Methods : In this prospective observational study, 193 ischaemic s...

Uric acid stones are the most readily dissolvable of all types of urinary stones. By maintaining urinary pH between 6.2-6.8 with the use of sodium acid citrate or uralyt-U and reducing serum uric acid by allopurinol, we tried to dissolve 107 stones in 67 patients. Ninety three (86.9%) stones were dissolved and 6 (5.6%) passed spontaneously within a period of one year. Eight (7.5%) stones were r...