Serum Urate and Incident Cardiovascular Disease: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. | Vanderbilt Center for Clinical Cardiovascular Outcomes Research and Trials Evaluation

Wang H, Jacobs DR, Gaffo AL, Gross MD, Goff DC, Carr JJ. Serum Urate and Incident Cardiovascular Disease: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. PloS one. 10(10). e0138067. PMID: 26381512 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC4575092

Abstract

There is controversy about whether serum urate (sUA) predicts future cardiovascular disease (CVD) independently of classical risk factors, and the age at which any prediction starts. We studied the sUA-CVD association among generally healthy adults.