Abstract:There has been a lot of recent excitement regarding elevated serum uric acid as it has been correlated with not just the traditional disorders associated with it, like gout and nephrolithiasis, but also with numerous other chronic diseases like chronic kidney disease, metabolic syndrome, hypertension, coronary artery disease etc which have emerged as the new epidemic of the twenty first century. Although numerous studies have explored the correlation of gout with these lifestyle disorders, none has as yet mana… Show more
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