Open AccessSerum uric acid and fatal myocardial infarction: detection of prognostic cut-off values: The URRAH (Uric Acid Right for Heart Health) study
Author(s) -
Edoardo Casíglia,
Valérie Tikhonoff,
Agostino Virdis,
Stefano Masi,
Carlo M. Barbagallo,
Michele Bombelli,
Bernardino Bruno,
Arrigo Francesco Giuseppe Cicero,
Massimo Cirillo,
Pietro Cirillo,
Giovambattista Desideri,
Lanfranco D’Elia,
Claudio Ferri,
Ferruccio Galletti,
Loreto Gesualdo,
Cristina Giannattasio,
Guido Iaccarino,
Luciano Lippa,
Francesca Mallamaci,
Alessandro Maloberti,
Alberto Mazza,
María Lorenza Muiesan,
Pietro Nazzaro,
Paolo Palatini,
Gianfranco Parati,
Roberto Pontremoli,
Fosca Quartı-Trevano,
Marcello Rattazzi,
Giulia Rivasi,
Massimo Salvetti,
Giuliano Tocci,
Andrea Ungar,
Paolo Verdecchia,
Francesca Viazzi,
Massimo Volpe,
Guıdo Grassı,
Claudio Borghi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of hypertension
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.249
H-Index - 172
eISSN - 1473-5598
pISSN - 0263-6352
DOI - 10.1097/hjh.0000000000002287
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , uric acid , confidence interval , confounding , proportional hazards model , myocardial infarction , diabetes mellitus , cardiology , endocrinology
The Working Group on Uric Acid and Cardiovascular Risk of the Italian Society of Hypertension conceived and designed an ad-hoc study aimed at searching for prognostic cut-off values of serum uric acid (SUA) in predicting fatal myocardial infaction (MI) in women and men.