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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2022 Oct;30(10):1917–1926. doi: 10.1002/oby.23540

Figure 2. Relationship of Serum Uric acid Levels with Obesity and Diabetes.

Figure 2.

An analysis of 5707 adults from the NHANES population survey (2007 to 2008) demonstrated a strong relationship of serum uric acid levels with presence of obesity or diabetes(81). One can observed that the risk for obesity with uric acid levels < 4 mg/dl is relatively low, suggesting that the uricase mutation alone did not cause much obesity. It was the interaction of the uricase mutation with western diet that led to the dramatic rise in obesity and diabetes.