- Title
- Hyperuricemia is independently associated with hypertension in men under 60 years in a general Chinese population
- Creator
- Qian, Tingting; Sun, Hui; Xu, Qun; Charchar, Fadi; Wang, Yutang
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/179741
- Identifier
- vital:15666
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41371-020-00455-7
- Identifier
- ISBN:0950-9240 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Hyperuricemia has been associated with hypertension, however, whether this association exists across all decades of adult life is unknown. This study aimed to assess the association between hyperuricemia and hypertension in relation to age. This retrospective cross-sectional study included a total of 22,556 adult Chinese people who attended Health Physical Examination in a Chinese hospital. Participants were aged between 18 and 95 years (mean [standard deviation], 45.4 [14.0]). Serum uric acid levels and blood pressure were measured. Associations between serum uric acid and blood pressure, and between hyperuricemia and hypertension diagnosis were analyzed using linear or logistic regression, adjusting for confounding risk factors including age, sex, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and fasting blood glucose. Sub-analysis was stratified by age and sex. Before adjustment, high serum uric acid was associated with higher systolic blood pressure (β = 0.214, P < 0.001) and higher diastolic blood pressure (β = 0.271, P < 0.001). Hyperuricemia was associated with hypertension diagnosis (OR, 1.763; 95% CI, 1.635–1.901; P < 0.001) in an unadjusted analysis. These findings remained significant after adjusting for confounding factors. Sub-analysis suggested that the association between uric acid and blood pressure was weaker in older age groups and the association between hyperuricemia and hypertension was limited to people under 60 years. Hyperuricemia was independently associated with hypertension diagnosis in men but not in women, and the independent association between hyperuricemia and hypertension only presented in men under 60 years. This study suggests that hyperuricemia is independently associated with hypertension in Chinese men under 60 years. © 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited part of Springer Nature. **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate “Fadi Charchar and Yutang Wang” is provided in this record**
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Relation
- Journal of Human Hypertension Vol. 35, no. 11 (2021), p. 1020-1028; https://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1062671
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited part of Springer Nature
- Subject
- 1103 Clinical Sciences; Cholesterol; Glucose; High density lipoprotein cholesterol; Uric acid; EMTREE medical terms
- Reviewed
- Funder
- This work was funded by the Shandong Natural Fund (ZR2015HL008), Shandong Province, China. Yutang Wang is supported by a grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (1062671). JG holds a Practitioner Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC; 1117061) and a Senior Clinical Research Fellowship from the Queensland Government, Australia.
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