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ReviewHypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension2023

Update in uric acid, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases.

Masanari Kuwabara, Takahide Kodama, Ryusuke Ae, Mehmet Kanbay, Ana Andres-Hernando, Claudio Borghi, Ichiro Hisatome, Miguel A Lanaspa

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Review in Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
57citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
15.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Comprehensive Review on Febuxostat for Hyperuricemia with Gout: Insights from Current Practice and Clinical Trials.High blood pressure & cardiovascular prevention : the official journal of the Italian Society of Hypertension · 2026
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  11. Relative Fat Mass Associated with Hyperuricemia in Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.Endocrine, metabolic & immune disorders drug targets · 2026
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  19. Uric acid and hypertension: insights from the joint symposium.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Masanari KuwabaraDepartment of Cardiology, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. kuwamasa728@gmail.com.
Takahide KodamaDepartment of Cardiology, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Ryusuke AeDivision of Public Health, Center for Community Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan.
Mehmet KanbayDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Koc University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
Ana Andres-HernandoDivision of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, USA.
Claudio BorghiDepartment of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Ichiro HisatomeDepartment of Cardiology, Yonago Medical Center, Yonago, Torrori, Japan.
Miguel A LanaspaDivision of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO, USA.
Toranomon Hospital · JPUniversity of Colorado Denver · USJichi Medical University · JPKoç University · TRNational Institute of Technology, Yonago College · JPUniversity of Bologna · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A direct relationship between serum uric acid levels and hypertension, cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases has been reported in many basic and epidemiological studies. Among these, high blood pression is one of the most common features associated with hyperuricemia. In this regard, several small-scale interventional studies have demonstrated a significant reduction in blood pressure in hypertensive or prehypertensive patients on uric acid-lowering drugs. These observation or intervention studies have led to affirm that there is a causal relationship between uric acid and hypertension. While the clinical association between uric acid and high blood pressure is notable, no clear conclusion has yet been reached as to whether lowering uric acid is beneficial to prevent cardiovascular and renal metabolic diseases. Recently, several prospective randomized controlled intervention trials using allopurinol and other uric acid-lowering drugs have been reported, and the results from these trials were almost negative, suggesting that the correlation between hyperuricemia and cardiovascular disease has no causality. However, it is important to note that in some of these recent studies there were high dropout rates and an important fraction of participants were not hyperuricemic. Therefore, we should carry caution in interpreting the results of these studies. This review article presents the results of recent clinical trials using uric acid-lowering drugs, focusing on hypertension and cardiovascular and renal metabolic diseases, and discusses the future of uric acid therapy.

Indexed as

Cardiovascular DiseasesHypertensionHyperuricemiaKidney DiseasesHumansProspective StudiesUric AcidUric AcidCardiovascular renal metabolic diseasesCausalityHypertensionRisk factorUric acid

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PMID37072573
OpenAlexW4366290746

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