Increasing serum uric acid levels were associated with a higher risk of acute myocardial infarction, stroke, and heart failure over 11.8 years of follow-up in 417,734 healthy individuals.
Cohort (n=417,734)
Does elevated serum uric acid increase the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, and congestive heart failure in middle-aged subjects without prior cardiovascular disease?
Moderate elevations in serum uric acid are associated with an increased incidence of AMI, stroke, and CHF in middle-aged individuals without prior cardiovascular disease.
OBJECTIVES: Few studies have simultaneously analysed the influence of elevated serum uric acid (UA) on acute myocardial infarction (AMI), ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke (IS, HS) and congestive heart failure (CHF) in large healthy populations. We, here, examine UA as a risk factor for AMI, stroke and CHF by age and gender in the Apolipoprotein MOrtality RISk (AMORIS) Study. DESIGN: Prospective study (11.8 years, range 7-17) of fatal and nonfatal acute myocardial infarction, stroke and CHF through linkage with Swedish hospital discharge and mortality registers. SETTINGS: Measurements of uric acid in 417,734 men and women from health check-ups in Stockholm area. RESULTS: There was a gradual increase in risk of AMI, stroke and CHF by increasing UA levels. Women had a stronger relationship between UA and both AMI and IS than men. Predictions of AMI were at least as powerful in the elderly as in the young, but not so for IS. Associations were markedly attenuated when adjusted for total cholesterol, triglycerides, hospital hypertension and diabetes status. The association between UA and HS was U-shaped in both genders. CHF was more strongly related to UA than AMI and stroke and less affected by the adjustment factors. CONCLUSIONS: Already moderate levels of UA appear to be associated with an increased incidence of AMI, stroke and CHF in middle-aged subjects without prior cardiovascular disease. These associations seem to increase gradually from lower to higher levels of UA. UA may be an important complementary indicator of cardiovascular risk in the general population.
Holme et al. (Mon,) conducted a cohort in Without prior cardiovascular disease (n=417,734). Serum uric acid vs. Lower levels of serum uric acid was evaluated on Fatal and nonfatal acute myocardial infarction, ischaemic and haemorrhagic stroke, and congestive heart failure. Increasing serum uric acid levels were associated with a higher risk of acute myocardial infarction, stroke, and heart failure over 11.8 years of follow-up in 417,734 healthy individuals.