Abstract:
Objective To analyze the risk of coronary artery calcification (CAC) in gout patients with different serum uric acid levels.
Methods The gender, age, hypertension (HTN), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), smoking, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), stable period serum uric acid, total cholesterol (Tch), triglycerides (TG), high-density lipoprotein (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C) and CAC score in 378 gout patients were investigated. The serum uric acid was divided into four groups (352 ~ 444 μmol/L, 445 ~ 524μmmol/L, 525 ~ 604 μmol/L and 605 ~ 817 μmol/L), and the CAC was divided into two groups (CACS = 0 and CACS > 0). The serum uric acid (ungrouped and 4-grouped) and CACS were used as univariate binary Logistic regression. Then the gender, age, HTN, T2DM, smoking, eGFR, blood uric acid (4 groups), Tch, TG, HDL-C and LDL-C were combined with CACS for multivariate binary Logistic regression.
Results The results of univariate binary Logistic regression showed that the risk of CAC increased with the serum uric acid levels of gout patients increasing (both ungrouped and grouped) (P < 0.01). After adjusting the gender, age, HTN, T2DM, smoking, eGFR, Tch, TG, HDL-C and LDL-C, the results of multivariate binary Logistic regression still indicated an association between serum uric acid levels and CAC in gout patients. The higher the blood uric acid level, the greater the risk of CAC (Q2 vs. Q1, OR = 1.143, P = 0.82; Q3 vs. Q1, OR = 8.508, P < 0.01; Q4 vs. Q1, OR = 60.770, P < 0.01).
Conclusions The higher the blood uric acid level of a person with gout, the more likely they are to develop CAC.