Serum Uric Acid Levels Improve Prediction of Incident Type 2 Diabetes in Individuals With Impaired Fasting Glucose: The Rancho Bernardo Study
Response to Oda and Kawai
- Caroline Kaercher Kramer, MD1,2,
- Denise von Müuhlen, MD, PHD1,
- Simerjot Kaur Jassal, MD1 and
- Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD1
- 1Division of Epidemiology, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California;
- 2Division of Endocrinology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
- Corresponding author: Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, ebarrettconnor{at}ucsd.edu.
Oda and Kawai (1) point out that uric acid (UA) levels may predict incident type 2 diabetes differently in men versus women. In our article (2), UA predicted type 2 diabetes independent of age, BMI, diuretic use, estimated glomerular filtration rate, and sex. Among 566 …
