Uric Acid-Hypertension Relationships

Recent studies have indicated that hyperuricemia is associated with risk of new onset hypertension and cardiorenal disease. While serum uric acid is a marker and predictor of new onset essential hypertension in the younger hypertensive population, this relation appears to weaken with age. In older hypertensive subjects, hyperuricemia is an indicator of cardiovascular risk rather than development of hypertension.