High Serum Uric Acid as a Novel Risk Factor for Type 2 Diabetes
Response to Dehghan et al.
- Chia-Yen Dai, MD, MS123,
- Wan-Long Chuang, MD, PHD23,
- Chi-Kong Ho, MD1,
- Tsan-Teng Ou, MD4,
- Jee-Fu Huang, MD25,
- Ming-Yen Hsieh, MD, MS2 and
- Ming-Lung Yu, MD, PHD23
- 1Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- 2Hepatobiliary Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- 3Faculty of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- 4Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- 5Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Municipal Hsiao-Kang Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Corresponding author: Ming-Lung Yu, d820195{at}gmail.com
We read with interest the article by Dehghan et al. (1) that reports a study of 4,536 subjects free from diabetes at baseline and suggests that serum uric acid (sUA) is a strong and independent risk factor for diabetes with a mean follow-up of 10.1 years. To elucidate the association between sUA, diabetes, and chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, we conducted a community-based study enrolling 4,982 subjects (2,060 male, aged 56.2 ± 6.2 years); subjects with sUA levels >7.0 mg/dl for men and …
