@Article{, title={Interaction between Uric Acid and Obesity}, author={Hind Shakir Ahmed}, journal={IRAQI JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE المجلة العراقية لطب المجتمع}, volume={33}, number={2}, pages={77-82}, year={2020}, abstract={Background: Hyperuricemia is associated with a diversity of other illnesses comprising increase alcohol and purine rich food ingestion and obesity. Hyperuricemia is deliberated to be a lifestyle condition interrelated with obesity. Objective: The aspire of this revision were to assess the occurrence of hyperuricemia and its association withobesity among the Iraqi adults.Subjects and Methods: Ninety participants with hyperuricemia participated in this study; their age ranged from 35-50 years. They were classified into two groups:- obese (n= 45) and non-obese (n= 45) during the period from January 2019 until July 2019 at Medical City Hospital/ Baghdad. Results: There was a substantial rise (p < 0.05) in body mass index, fasting serum glucose, total cholesterol, triacylglycerol, and low density lipoprotein cholesterol, while there was a substantial reduce in serum high density lipoprotein cholesterol in obese subjects as paralleled to non-obese. Also, there was an elevation in serum lipid ratios, but they were not significant. A substantial rise in serum uric acid was found in obese subjects as paralleled to non-obese. An elevation in serum uric acid level was found in males as paralleled to females, but it was not substantial. Furthermore, there was a substantial positive correlation between serum uric acid and body mass index, waist circumference, waist to hip ratio, fasting serum glucose, total cholesterol, triacylglycerol, and low density lipoprotein cholesterol, while there was a significant negative correlation between serum uric acid and high density lipoprotein cholesterol in obese subjects.Conclusions: Outcomes of this data designate a substantial positive correlation between hyperuricemia and obesity among the Iraqi adult subjects. Thus, routine measurement of serum uric acid is suggested in obese persons to avoid hyperuricemia and its associated problems.Keyword: Hyperuricemia, Uric acid, Obesity, and Lipid profile.

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