ReviewCurrent rheumatology reports2017
Gout and Metabolic Syndrome: a Tangled Web.
Review in Current rheumatology reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 77 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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77 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 148 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association between gout and the risk of osteoporosis and fractures: a meta-analysis.Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie · 2024Pooled it
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- Association between metabolic syndrome and uric acid: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
- Can SGLT2 inhibitors prevent incident gout? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Acta diabetologica · 2022Pooled it
- Gout is associated with elevated risk of erectile dysfunction: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Rheumatology international · 2019Pooled it
- Unraveling the genetic causes in large pedigrees with gout by whole‑exome sequencing.International journal of molecular medicine · 2020Trial
- Identification of a 10-protein plasma signature for preclinical gout risk beyond serum urate: a robustness-first proteomic study in 33,147 normouricaemic individuals.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Article
- The IL-17 pathway mediated by m6A-modified lncRNA H19: a new mechanism for Jianpi Qingre Tongluo Prescription in repressing inflammation and improving lipid metabolism in gout arthritis.Chinese medicine · 2026Article
- Preliminary analysis of lifestyle and genetic factors for hyperuricemia and gout prevalence in the Yunnan Miao population of China.Frontiers in genetics · 2026Article
- Research progress on the correlation between gut microbiota and the occurrence of hyperuricemia.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Distinct Characteristics of Patients with Gout and an Underweight or Normal Body Mass Index: A Single-Center Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Pear-shaped body types linked to lower risk of gout: genetic evidence from Mendelian randomization.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025Article
- Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease and the risk of gout: a UK Biobank prospective cohort study.European journal of medical research · 2025Article
- Interpretive prediction of hyperuricemia and gout patients via machine learning analysis of human gut microbiome.BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- Integration of metabolomics and genomics implicates a causality between 1398 blood metabolites and gout.Clinical rheumatology · 2025Article
- Association Between Triglyceride-Glucose Index and Gout in Young Adults in China.International journal of general medicine · 2025Article
- Refractory Gout and Metabolic Syndrome in a Chinese Cohort: A Propensity Score Matching and Nonlinear Relationship Analysis.Journal of inflammation research · 2025Article
- Association of Metabolic Score for Visceral Fat (METS-VF) with Gout Risk in Patients with Hypertension and Hyperuricemia: A Multicenter Study Based on the Chinese Population.Diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity : targets and therapy · 2025Article
- Gout: global epidemiology, risk factors, comorbidities and complications: a narrative review.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2024Review
- Exploring the associations and potential mediators between lipid biomarkers and the risk of developing gout: NHANES 2007-2018.Lipids in health and disease · 2024Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewThe complexity of gout continues to unravel with each new investigation. Gout sits at the intersection of multiple intrinsically complex processes, and its prevalence, impact on healthcare costs, and association with important co-morbidities make it increasingly relevant. The association between gout and type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular disease, renal disease, and obesity suggest that either gout, or its necessary precursor hyperuricemia, may play an important role in the manifestations of the metabolic syndrome. In this review, we analyze the complex interconnections between gout and metabolic syndrome, by reviewing gout's physiologic and epidemiologic relationships with its major co-morbidities. RECENT
findingsIncreasing evidence supports gout's association with metabolic syndrome. More specifically, both human studies and animal models suggest that hyperuricemia may play a role in promoting inflammation, hypertension and cardiovascular disease, adipogenesis and lipogenesis, insulin and glucose dysregulation, and liver disease. Fructose ingestion is associated with increased rates of hypertension, weight gain, impaired glucose tolerance, and dyslipidemia and is a key driver of urate biosynthesis. AMP kinase (AMPK) is a central regulator of processes that tend to mitigate against the metabolic syndrome. Within hepatocytes, leukocytes, and other cells, a fructose/urate metabolic loop drives key inhibitors of AMPK, including AMP deaminase and fructokinase, that may tilt the balance toward metabolic syndrome progression. Preliminary evidence suggests that agents that block the intracellular synthesis of urate may restore AMPK activity and help maintain metabolic homeostasis. Gout is both an inflammatory and a metabolic disease. With further investigation of urate's role, the possibility of proper gout management additionally mitigating metabolic syndrome is an evolving and important question.
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