AIM Because the prevalence of hyperuricemia is lower in females than in males, the association between hyperuricemia and cardiovascular disease has been frequently reported in females. Increased serum uric acid levels are associated with the presence of cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, renal dysfunction, insulin resistance, and metabolic syndrome. However, it is controversial w...

Preeclampsia is a serious pregnancy complication characterized by hypertension, proteinuria with or without pathological edema. According to some studies, serum uric acid lacks sensitivity and specificity as a diagnostic tool whereas another group of the researchers indicated uricemia as a predictor of preeclampsia in pregnant ladies. The present study was designed to assess whether serum uric ...

Objective: To investigate the effects of two well known antihypertensive drugs captopril and amlodipine on serum uric acid level in type 2 diabetic hypertensive patients. Methods: One hundred hypertensive type 2 diabetic patients were divided into two groups, with 50 patients in each group. Group 1 was given captopril and group 2 amlodipine. A control group was included. Blood pressure and uric...

INTRODUCTION Circulating concentrations of uric acid may be affected by dietary components such as meat, fish and dairy products, but only a few studies have compared uric acid concentrations among individuals who exclude some or all of these foods from their diet. The aim of this study was to investigate differences in serum uric acid concentrations between meat eaters, fish eaters, vegetarian...

Uric acid added to serum is incompletely recovered in tungstic acid filtrates of serum. Contrary to previous views, the poor recovery is not the result of the adsorption of uric acid upon the precipitated protein, nor is it the result of the presence in the filtrates of inhibitors of the color-forming reaction between the sodium carbonate and phosphotungstic acid reagents, and the uric acid. Ev...

Serum Uric Acid was done in 150 male patients suffering from ischaemic heart disease (angina pectoris 67 and myocardial infarction 83) and 30 controls. Serum Uric Acid was significantly raised (P <0.001) in patients as compared to controls. It is suggested that in assessing the suscéptibility of a person to ischaemic heart disease (IHD) serum uric acid Values should beconsidered as a predictor ...

Uric acid is a product of metabolic breakdown of purine nucleotides. In humans, uric acid is the final oxidation product of purine catabolism (1). Elevated serum uric acid (hyperuricemia) is closely associated with visceral far accumulation (2-4) and various metabolic disorders such as glucose intolerance, elevated blood pressure, dyslipidemia and atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases, concep...

Background: Psoriasis has been considered of late as dermatological disorder with systemic inflammation that could contribute to various systemic events. There are studies that have demonstrated increased Serum uric acid levels in patients with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. There have been no studies so far on Uric acid levels in relation to psoriasis and metabolic syndrome (MetS). Objecti...

BACKGROUND Hemodialysis for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) incurs huge medical costs in Taiwan. We set out to determine if it is possible to help control chronic renal disease with early treatment of hyperuricemia. METHODS Data from Taipei Medical University Hospital (TMUH) health center from January 2004 to December 2006 were analyzed to correlate renal function and blood uric acid concentra...

Uric acid may have a role in the development of hypertension and renal dysfunction. We explored the relationship among longitudinal blood pressure, renal function, and cardiovascular outcomes in a large cohort of patients with treated hypertension. We used data from the Glasgow Blood Pressure Clinic database. Patients with a baseline measure of serum uric acid and longitudinal measures of blood...