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In this month's PLoS Medicine , John Danesh and colleagues from the University of Cambridge, along with investigators from the Icelandic Heart Association, report the single largest prospective study addressing the role of uric acid in heart disease.
Dissecting out the role of uric acid is further complicated by three things: high levels of uric acid are associated with hypertension and being overweight (other risk factors for CHD); levels of uric acid can be altered by drugs such as diuretics that people with CHD often take; and finally, alteration of renal function can affect uric acid levels.
Well, it is likely that improving diet, losing weight, and controlling blood pressure may all contribute to reducing both one's risk of CHD and one's serum levels of uric acid.
The paper answers the question of the role of uric acid in prediction of CHD clearly: the risk ratio for prediction of disease was 1.13 (1.
Further, their systematic review combines their findings with those of 15 previously published prospective studies of serum uric acid—9,458 cases of CHD and 155,084 controls in all.