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Since then, measurement of serum uric acid has been suggested as a predictor of CHD.
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.
It started with a paper published in 1951 in the Annals of Internal Medicine that found higher serum uric acid concentrations in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) compared with controls.
Retrospective studies may be unable to control adequately for other risk factors—hence prospective, ideally population-based, studies would be the best to answer the question of whether there really is an association between high uric acid and CHD.
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.