Regular exercise significantly lessened the excess mortality risk associated with elevated serum uric acid. individuals whose serum uric acid was above 7 mg/dL, all-cause mortality risk increased by 22%. A growing body of evidence has implicated high serum uric acid in increased risk for cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. In some Asian populations, up to one-third of individuals have levels of uric acid above 7 mg/dL, Those who exercised minimally, like 15 minutes a day instead of 30 minutes, in brisk walking instead of jogging, also had reduced nearly all mortality increases from high serum uric acid. Thus, high serum uric acid associated with increased mortality is a global phenomenon, affecting one-quarter to one-third of the population, and our recommendation to use physical activity to attenuate such a risk has far-reaching implications, in saving lives as well as in improving quality of life, Chi Pang Wen, MD, of National Health Research Institutes in Zhunan, Taiwan, in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:52:43 +0000