Journal article
Serum uric acid does not predict incident metabolic syndrome in a population with high prevalence of obesity
Abstract
AIM: To evaluate whether uric acid (UA) predicts 4-yr incidence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in non-diabetic participants of the Strong Heart Study (SHS) cohort.
METHODS AND RESULTS: In this population-based prospective study we analyzed 1499 American Indians (890 women), without diabetes or MetS, controlled during the 4th SHS exam and re-examined 4 years later during the 5th SHS exam. Participants were divided into sex-specific tertiles of UA …
Authors
Ferrara LA; Wang H; Umans JG; Franceschini N; Jolly S; Lee ET; Yeh J; Devereux RB; Howard BV; de Simone G
Journal
Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, Vol. 24, No. 12, pp. 1360–1364
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
December 2014
DOI
10.1016/j.numecd.2014.06.002
ISSN
0939-4753