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. 2022 May 26;14(11):2206.
doi: 10.3390/nu14112206.

Hyperuricemia and Its Association with Osteoporosis in a Large Asian Cohort

Jhong-You Li  1   2   3 , Jia-In Lee  4 , Cheng-Chang Lu  1   2   5 , Yu-De Su  1   2 , Chao-Tse Chiu  1   2 , Szu-Chia Chen  6   7   8   9 , Jiun-Hung Geng  9   10   11 , Chung-Hwan Chen  2   5   12   13   14   15   16   17   18
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Hyperuricemia and Its Association with Osteoporosis in a Large Asian Cohort

Jhong-You Li et al. Nutrients. .

Abstract

In this paper, we aimed to examine the protective role of hyperuricemia in the prevalence of osteoporosis in a large Asian cohort. A total of 119,037 participants from 29 recruitment centers in Taiwan were enrolled onto our study. Participants with serum uric acid greater than 7.0 mg/dL in men and 6.0 mg/dL in women were classified as the hyperuricemia group whereas the others were the control group. The mean age of all participants was 50; there were 23,114 subjects (19%) with hyperuricemia. Osteoporosis was observed in 8243 (9%) and 1871 (8%) participants in the control and hyperuricemia groups, respectively. After adjusting for confounders, a lower risk of osteoporosis was found in the hyperuricemia group compared with the control group (odds ratio, 0.916; 95% confidence interval, 0.864 to 0.970). A subgroup analysis showed that hyperuricemia was associated with a lower risk of osteoporosis in females, but not in males. Women with serum uric acid greater than 8.0 mg/dL were not associated with a greater risk of osteoporosis. Our study suggests that hyperuricemia decreases the risk of osteoporosis in females, but not in males. The protective role was no longer apparent when the serum uric acid level was greater than 8 mg/dL.

Keywords: epidemiologic study; hyperuricemia; osteoporosis; risk factors.

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