tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "The Relationship between Serum Uric Acid and Spirometric Values in Participants in a Health Check: The Takahata Study"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu khoa học ngành y học tạp chí Medical Sciences dành cho các bạn sinh viên ngành y tham khảo đề tài: The Relationship between Serum Uric Acid and Spirometric Values in Participants in a Health Check: The Takahata Study. | Int. J. Med. Sci. 2011 8 470 o IVYSPRING wBrnsno PLI International Journal of Medical Sciences 2011 8 6 470-478 Research Paper The Relationship between Serum Uric Acid and Spirometric Values in Participants in a Health Check The Takahata Study Yasuko Aida1 Yoko Shibata1 Daisuke Osaka1 Shuichi Abe1 Sumito Inoue1 Koji Fukuzaki1 Yoshikane Tokairin1 Akira Igarashi1 Keiko Yamauchi1 Takako Nemoto1 Keiko Nunomiya1 Hiroyuki Kishi1 Masamichi Sato1 Tetsu Watanabe1 Tsuneo Konta1 Sumio Kawata2 Takeo Kato3 and Isao Kubota1 1. Department of Cardiology Pulmonology and Nephrology Yamagata University School of Medicine Yamagata Japan 2. Department of Gastroenterology Yamagata University Hospital Yamagata Japan 3. Department of Neurology Hematology Metabolism Endocrinology and Diabetology Yamagata University School of Medicine Yamagata Japan H Corresponding author Dr. Yoko Shibata 2-2-2 Iida-Nishi Yamagata City Yamagata 990-9585 Japan. Tel. 81-23-628-5302 Fax 81-23-628-5305 Email shibata@ Ivyspring International Publisher. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License http licenses by-nc-nd . Reproduction is permitted for personal noncommercial use provided that the article is in whole unmodified and properly cited. Received Accepted Published Abstract Background Tissue hypoxia induces the degradation of adenosine triphosphate resulting in the production of uric acid UA . Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD have been reported to have high serum levels of UA sUA compared with control subjects. However the relationship between sUA levels and spirometric measures has not been investigated in detail in a general population. Methods Subjects aged 40 years or older n 2 917 who had participated in a community-based annual health check in Takahata Japan in 2004 and 2005 were enrolled in the study. These subjects performed spirometry their blood .