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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12 Suppl 3
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-11-28
pubmed:abstractText
Metabolic syndrome, characterized by truncal obesity, hypertriglyceridemia, elevated BP, and insulin resistance, is recognized increasingly as a major risk factor for kidney disease and also is a common feature of patients who are on dialysis. One feature that is common to patients with metabolic syndrome is an elevated uric acid. Although often considered to be secondary to hyperinsulinemia, recent evidence supports a primary role for uric acid in mediating this syndrome. Specifically, fructose, which rapidly can cause metabolic syndrome in rats, also raises uric acid, and lowering uric acid in fructose-fed rats prevents features of the metabolic syndrome. Uric acid also can accelerate renal disease in experimental animals and epidemiologically is associated with progressive renal disease in humans. It is proposed that fructose- and purine-rich foods that have in common the raising of uric acid may have a role in the epidemic of metabolic syndrome and renal disease that is occurring throughout the world.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1046-6673
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
S165-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Uric acid, the metabolic syndrome, and renal disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, PO Box 100224, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA. pietro.cirillo@medicine.ufl.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural