Hyperuricemia as a Risk Factor in Hypertension among Patients with Very High Cardiovascular Risk. 2023

Paweł Muszyński, and Emil Julian Dąbrowski, and Marta Pasławska, and Marta Niwińska, and Anna Kurasz, and Michał Święczkowski, and Justyna Tokarewicz, and Łukasz Kuźma, and Marcin Kożuch, and Sławomir Dobrzycki
Department of Invasive Cardiology, Medical University of Białystok, M. Skłodowskiej-Curie 24A, 15-276 Białystok, Poland.

Hypertension remains a global threat to public health, affecting the worldwide population. It is one of the most common risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Today's treatments focus on creating a hypotensive effect. However, there is a constant search for additional factors to reduce the potential of developing hypertension complications. These factors may act as a parallel treatment target with a beneficial effect in specific populations. Some studies suggest that uric acid may be considered such a factor. This study investigated the potential effect of uric acid concentrations over 5 mg/dL on the incidence of hypertension complications among patients with very high cardiovascular risk. A total of 705 patients with hypertension and very high cardiovascular risk were selected and included in the analysis. The patients were divided and compared according to serum uric acid levels. The study showed a higher occurrence of heart failure (OR = 1.7898; CI: 1.2738-2.5147; p = 0.0008), atrial fibrillation (OR = 3.4452; CI: 1.5414-7.7002; p = 0.0026) and chronic kidney disease (OR = 2.4470; CI: 1.3746-4.3558; p = 0.0024) among individuals with serum uric acid levels over 5 mg/dL, males and those with a BMI > 25 kg/m2. These findings suggest that even serum uric acid concentrations over 5 mg/dL may affect the prevalence of hypertension-related complications among patients with very high cardiovascular risk.

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