Since the discovery of hyperuricemia as the cause of gout in the early 1800s, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and kidney disease have also been related to increased serum uric acid (UA) levels in subsequent years (Nakagawa et al., 2006); patients with gout had a much higher prevalence of hypertension (25-50%), mild-to-moderate kidney disease (20-60%) (Kutzing & Firestein, 2008) and cardiov...

Fructose consumption has been recently related to an epidemic of metabolic syndrome, and hyperuricemia plays a pathogenic role in fructose-induced metabolic syndrome. Fructose-fed rats showed hyperuricemia and renal dysfunction with reductions of the urinary uric acid/creatinine ratio and fractional excretion of uric acid (FE(ur)), as well as other features of metabolic syndrome. Lowering serum...

Previous epidemiological studies have suggested that uric acid is an independent risk factor for incident hypertension, whereas few studies have evaluated the effect of hyperuricemia on blood pressure control in hypertensive patients. We investigated whether hyperuricemia predicts uncontrolled hypertension through a large-scale prospective cohort study with hypertensive patients treated with fi...

The purpose of the present study was to find novel loci associated with hyperuricemia using data from a genome-wide association study (GWAS) conducted on healthy Koreans. We conducted a GWAS using data from a community-based cohort study where 3,647 subjects aged 40-89 were recruited by the Korea National Institute of Health (KNIH). The community-based cohort consisted of subjects who did not s...

The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between hyperuricemia and hematological indicators. Five hundred twenty-two male and 255 female subjects (18-90 years old) were recruited in the study. The level of serum uric acid (SUA), total white blood cell (WBC) count, red blood cell (RBC) count, hemoglobin, hematocrit, and platelet count was measured, computed, and analyzed. Pearson co...

Chronic kidney disease and hyperuricemia have been associated to an increased risk and a worse prognosis in acute ischemic stroke. Several mechanisms, including platelet dysfunction, coagulation disorders, endothelial dysfunction, inflammation, and an increased risk of atrial fibrillation could be implicated. The role of serum uric acid in this setting is still object of debate. We enrolled all...

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common chronic disease associated with high levels of serum uric acid (SUA). However, whether this relationship applies in obese subjects has been unclear, and no cohort study has previously been conducted in non-obese subjects. We therefore performed a retrospective cohort study among employees of seven companies in China to investigate whether hyp...

Gout is a urate deposition disease caused by persistent hyperuricemia. Because gout patients present with a variety of clinical symptoms, it is necessary to have a guideline for the standard management and care of gout and hyperuricemia. The Japanese Society of Gout and Nucleic Acid Metabolism, a scientific society committed to study nucleic acid metabolism and related diseases, established the...

AIM to investigate the MACE-free survivals difference between hyperuricemic and normouricemic patients and to determine its role as risk factor for MACE occurrence in hospitalized acute coronary syndrome patients. METHODS retrospective cohort study with survival analysis approach was conducted in 251 patients with acute coronary syndrome who were treated in ICCU Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital du...

Hyperuricemia is associated with cardiovascular risk. The present study examines the association between serum uric acid (UA) elevation and the 2-, 2-, and 3-adrenoceptor polymorphisms. In 219 nonobese, normotensive, normouricemic (serum UA 6.5 mg/dL at entry) men, serum UA, plasma norepinephrine (NE), the homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), body mass index, total body...