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Serum Uric Acid and Plasma Norepinephrine Concentrations Predict Subsequent Weight Gain and Blood Pressure Elevation

Kazuko Masuo*; Hideki Kawaguchi; Hiroshi Mikami; Toshio Ogihara; and Michael L. Tuck

From the Department of Geriatric Medicine, Division of Health Promotion Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine (K.M., H.K., H.M., T.O.), Suita City, Osaka, Japan, and the Sepulveda VA Medical Center and UCLA School of Medicine (M.L.T.), Sepulveda, Calif.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kazukom7{at}eb.mbn.or.jp.

Abstract--It has been reported that hypertension and obesity often coexist with hyperuricemia. To clarify the relations between serum uric acid, plasma norepinephrine, and insulin or leptin levels in subjects with weight gain-induced blood pressure elevation, we conducted the present longitudinal study. In 433 young, nonobese, normotensive men, body mass index, blood pressure, and levels of serum uric acid, fasting plasma norepinephrine, insulin, and leptin were measured every year for 5 years. Subjects were stratified by significant weight gain and/or blood pressure elevation (>10% in body mass index or mean blood pressure) for 5 years. At entry, blood pressure, uric acid, and norepinephrine values in subjects with blood pressure elevation were greater than in those without it, although body mass index, insulin, and leptin were similar. At entry, body mass index, blood pressure, uric acid, and norepinephrine in subjects with weight gain were greater than in those without weight gain. The increases in body mass index, mean blood pressure, uric acid, norepinephrine, insulin, and leptin for 5 years were greater in subjects with blood pressure elevation and/or weight gain than in subjects without, and those increases were greatest in subjects with weight gain whose blood pressure was elevated. By multiple regression analysis, basal mean blood pressure, norepinephrine, and uric acid were significant determinant factors of changes in mean blood pressure over 5 years, and basal body mass index, norepinephrine, and uric acid were significant determinant factors of changes in body mass index. These results demonstrate that serum uric acid and plasma norepinephrine concentrations predict subsequent weight gain and blood pressure elevation.


Key words: uric acid • sympathetic nervous system • obesity • hypertension, obesity




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