Table 2.

Correlations of nail urate with other variables in total 106 subjects.

	r	p
Age	− 0.03	0.793
BMI	0.13	0.235
Duration of gout	0.35	0.011*
FPG	0.24	0.041*
SBP	0.30	0.005**
DBP	0.26	0.014*
ALT	0.13	0.230
AST	0.15	0.229
TC	− 0.07	0.570
TG	− 0.03	0.785
LDL-c	− 0.12	0.373
HDL-c	− 0.07	0.599
BUN	0.17	0.145
Volume of MSU crystals	0.42	< 0.001***
Serum urate	0.27	0.010*
Cr	0.02	0.853

Data were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation analysis.

SBP systolic blood pressure, DBP diastolic blood pressure, BMI Body Mass Index, FPG fasting plasma glucose, ALT alanine aminotransferase, AST aspartate aminotransferase; TC, total cholesterol, TC total cholesterol, TG triglycerides, HDL-c high density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-c low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, BUN Urea nitrogen, Cr Creatinine.

*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001.