Table 5.

The major determinants of the level of serum uric acid by stepwise section procedure of multivariate linear regression models.

	Men		Women
	R2=0.130		R2=0.219
	beta	P value	beta	P value
Age	−0.008	*	–	–
BMI	0.053	**	0.072	***
SBP	–	–	–	–
DBP	0.014	*	–	–
Serum glucose	−0.008	**	–	–
Cholesterol	0.003	*	–	–
Triglyceride	0.002	***	0.004	***

BMI – body mass index; SBP – systolic blood pressure; DBP – diastolic blood pressure;

^*means P<0.05;

^**means P<0.01;

^***means P<0.001.