Table 3.

Correlation of uric acid levels with parameters of the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes

	Bruneck	Utah
		Control	Severe obesity
n	800	831	1,038
Correlation coefficients between uric acid and
BMI	0.29*	0.44*	0.17*
Glucose	0.28*	0.31*	0.09†
Systolic blood pressure	0.15*	0.25*	0.08‡
Diastolic blood pressure	0.11†	0.29*	0.01
HDL cholesterol	−0.29*	−0.44*	−0.20*
Triglycerides	0.38*	0.33*	0.14*
Metabolic syndrome components	0.31*	0.39*	0.18*
Uric acid concentrations in subjects
With and without metabolic syndrome	5.3 ± 1.4 vs. 4.3 ± 1.2*	6.2 ± 1.4 vs. 5.2 ± 1.4*	6.4 ± 1.5 vs. 6.0 ± 1.5*
With and without type 2 diabetes	5.0 ± 1.5 vs. 4.7 ± 1.3‡	6.1 ± 1.4 vs. 5.5 ± 1.5†	6.3 ± 1.7 vs. 6.3 ± 1.5

Data are correlation coefficients and means ± SD.

^*P < 0.001;

^†P < 0.01;

^‡P < 0.05.