Serum Urate and Incident Cardiovascular Disease: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study.

There is controversy about whether serum urate (sUA) predicts future cardiovascular disease (CVD) independently of classical risk factors, and the age at which any prediction starts. We studied the sUA-CVD association among generally healthy adults.CARDIA recruited 5115 black and white individuals a...

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Main Authors: Huifen Wang, David R Jacobs, Angelo L Gaffo, Myron D Gross, David C Goff, J Jeffrey Carr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4575092?pdf=render