Can uric acid increase only gout? What other hazards are more serious?

Hello, everyone, when it comes to the harm of hyperuricemia, many people may think of gout first. Indeed, the probability of gout in patients with hyperuricemia is indeed higher than that in ordinary people. However, the harm of hyperuricemia is not just this. For a long time, if hyperuricemia is not treated in time, it will bring serious harm to the body in many aspects. Let's take a look at what harm hyperuricemia will bring to the body.

The first is kidney disease, long-term high uric acid. If we don't manage it, it is easy to cause kidney damage. This is because when uric acid rises, it will obviously increase the blood concentration, and the kidney needs to excrete the waste in the blood, so it will increase the burden on the kidney. In addition, when the concentration of uric acid is too high, it is likely to accumulate a lot of waste in our kidneys, which will lead to diseases in kidney calculi.

Secondly, atherosclerosis and uric acid can be directly deposited on the arterial wall, damaging the intima of our arteries, stimulating the proliferation of vascular endothelial cells, leading to the deposition of blood lipids on the wall, which has been regarded as one of the risk factors for inhibiting atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease.

Third, it will lead to high blood pressure. High uric acid will damage the blood vessel wall and endanger cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, so it will affect our blood pressure. Clinical data show that the incidence of membranous hypertension will increase by 25% for every 59.5 increase in serum uric acid level. Therefore, there is a strong causal relationship between hyperuricemia and hypertension. Therefore, in order to avoid hypertension, we should pay attention to controlling uric acid.

The fourth type is diabetes with high uric acid, which not only easily leads to hypertension, but also easily leads to diabetes. This is because hyperuricemia will greatly reduce the body's ability to use glucose, affect the normal function of insulin, and lead to an increase in blood sugar. According to research, for every liter of uric acid in blood, the incidence of diabetes will increase 17%.

Fifth, high uric acid in coronary heart disease can significantly increase the mortality of cardiovascular diseases, and will affect the therapeutic effect of cardiovascular diseases, and even cause heart failure in severe cases. In short, everyone should try to control uric acid. Most people need to find ways to control uric acid at the level of 240 to 420 micromoles per liter to reduce the occurrence and development of other chronic diseases. Ok, that's all for today.