Hyperuricaemia: a marker of increased cardiovascular risk in rheumatic patients: analysis of the ACT-CVD cohort

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Mart AFJ van de Laar²  Harald E Vonkeman²  Inger L Meek¹ 

[1]UMC St Radboud afd, Reumatische Ziekten, huispost 470, Po Box 9101, 6500HB Nijmegen, Netherlands

[2]Arthritis Centre Twente, University Twente and Medisch Spectrum Twente, Po Box 5000, 7500KA Enschede, Netherlands

关键词: Allopurinol;    Cardiovascular risk;    Inflammation;    Osteoarthritis;    Arthritis;    Gout;    Hyperuricaemia;   

Others  :  1127622
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2474-15-174

 received in 2013-12-17, accepted in 2014-05-01,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Gout and hyperuricaemia may be associated with increased cardiovascular risk, but analyses in different populations show conflicting results. This study investigates the impact of serum uric acid, inflammation and traditional CV risk parameters on CV event risk in patients with gouty arthritis and patients with non-gouty rheumatic disease.

Methods

cross-sectional and prospective multivariate analysis of the relation between tertiles of serum uric acid and individual traditional CV risk factors in a cohort of gouty arthritis (GA, n=172), rheumatoid arthritis (RA, n=480) and osteoarthritis (OA, n=206) patients. Main outcome measures: systolic blood pressure, TC/HDL ratio, GlyHb, BMI and first CV events.

Results

Individual CV risk factors were significantly less favourable in GA (systolic blood pressure, TC/HDL ratio, BMI, p<0.05). In RA and OA, but not in GA, individual cardiometabolic parameters correlated with serum uric acid values (OA: RA: systolic blood pressure, TC/HDL ratio, BMI; systolic blood pressure, TC/HDL ratio, GlyHb, BMI; p<0.05). In non-GA individuals the highest tertile of serum uric acid (>0.34 mmol/L) and NT proBNP level were independent predictors of first CV events, against age and GlyHb level in GA (p<0.05). The hazard of first CV events was equally significantly increased in GA patients (HR 3.169, 95% CI 1.287-7.806) and non-GA individuals with a serum uric acid ≥ 0.34 mmol/L (HR 3.721, 95% CI 1.603-8.634) compared to non-GA individuals with a serum uric acid < 0.27.

Conclusions

GA is associated with a 3.1-fold hazard of first CV events. In non-GA rheumatic patients increasing serum uric acid is associated with increased CV risk, whereas CV risk in GA is independent of serum uric acid values. The presence of GA or a baseline serum uric acid in the upper range are possibly stronger predictors of first CV events than some traditional CV risk factors or parameters of inflammation.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Meek et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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