Background: a great debate in literature exists nowadays on the role of uric acid as a marker of cardiovascular and metabolic organ damage or a risk factor for cardiovascular and metabolic disease methods: the study aimed to determine the relationship among serum uric acid and metabolic syndrome and atherosclerosis, by means of carotid intima media-thickness, in a cohort of 811 otherwise. Uric acid and carotid atherosclerosis. Although many studies have focused on the presence or absence of an independent relationship between uric acid and coronary and cerebrovascular artery diseases, 12–14 thus far, few have examined the independence of the relationship between serum uric acid and carotid atherosclerosis 15,16 to this end, the current study had 2 goals: first, to.
uric acid and carotid atherosclerosis
The correlates of serum uric acid and the association of uric acid with carotid intimal-medial thickness (an early measure of atherosclerosis) were investigated in participants of the baseline examination of the atherosclerosis risk in communities (aric) study.
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