About 7% of Chinese people living in urban areas have high blood levels
of uric acid that put them at risk of gout, a Shandong study shows.
A
study of 4,218 adults in the Jinan area found that hyperuricemia (serum
uric acid ≥416 μmol/L in men and ≥357 μmol/L in women) was present in
6.4 % of men and 2.1 % of women overall. The prevalence of hyperuricemia
was greater in urban (6.7 %) than in rural areas (1.7 %) of Jinan city.
High uric acid levels were associated with hypertriglyceridemia and
high serum creatinine level and also significantly associated with male
sex, urban residence, hypertension, obesity, and hypercholesterolemia.
Source: Rheumatology International
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Wednesday, 19 December 2012
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