Uric acid may raise CKD risk: large study provides more epidemiologic evidence of an association.

Renal & Urology News | July 1, 2008| | Copyright

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STOCKHOLM -- Researchers in Vienna have found that higher levels of uric acid are associated with an increased risk of new-onset kidney disease. The new findings add to a growing body of data supporting such an association, including a recently published study by an American team.

At the 2008 congress of the European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association here, Rudolf P. Obermayr, MD, of Donauspital, Sozialmedizinisches Zentrum Ost der Stadt Wien, reported on a study of 21,475 apparently healthy volunteers of ...

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