IDENTIFICATION OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR THRESHOLD LIMIT FOR SERUM URIC ACID. ANALYSIS FROM A GENERAL ITALIAN POPULATION

Objective:Serum uric acid (SUA) is a predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD), but its levels that discriminate risk for CVD and mortality remain unknown. We used a large Italian population comprising >30000 subjects to assess the threshold of SUA that increases the risk of total and CVD mortality.