Hyperuricemia and uncontrolled hypertension in treated hypertensive patients: K-MetS Study.

ABSTRACT: Previous epidemiological studies have suggested that uric acid is an independent risk factor for incident hypertension, whereas few studies have evaluated the effect of hyperuricemia on blood pressure control in hypertensive patients. We investigated whether hyperuricemia predicts uncontrolled hypertension through a large-scale prospective cohort study with hypertensive patients treated with fimasartan in the Republic of Korea (the Kanarb-Metabolic Syndrome study).Of the 10,601 hypertensive patients who were recruited from 582 private clinics and 11 university hospitals at baseline, 7725 completed the follow-up after 3 months of fimasartan medication, and 6506 were included in the analysis after excluding those with missing values. We estimated the risk of uncontrolled hypertension after 3

SUBMITTER: Cho J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4956806 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature