What are the dangers of high uric acid?

Many people often encounter the phenomenon of high uric acid in their daily lives. Generally, middle-aged friends should pay special attention to this situation and be careful about the occurrence of high blood sugar and high blood lipid problems. People with high uric acid may even have symptoms of gout, so everyone needs to be vigilant in daily life to avoid high uric acid from burdening our bodies.

Expert tips: Young and middle-aged men with high uric acid need to pay attention to the fourth high. According to a survey, there are 120 million people with hyperuricemia in my country, and hyperuricemia has become the fourth high after the "three highs" of hypertension, hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia.

Uric acid is the final product of purine metabolism in the human body. The amount of uric acid produced and excreted by the human body every day is a relatively constant value. When the production of uric acid increases or the excretion of uric acid decreases, the concentration of urate in the blood will increase. When the blood uric acid value exceeds 420umol/L, it will be clinically diagnosed as "hyperuricemia", which is reflected in the physical examination report as "high uric acid".

Some people do not take it seriously when they see that they and people around them have high uric acid levels after a physical examination, thinking that high uric acid is not as serious as high blood pressure and high blood sugar. Therefore, many people had high uric acid levels in their physical examinations last year, and their uric acid levels have been rising this year. Clinical experts believe that in recent years, the media's publicity and education on the "three highs" has been relatively popular, and the public has a certain understanding of this, but the media's publicity on knowledge on the prevention and treatment of high uric acid is still too little. People lack understanding of high uric acid, and some mistakenly believe that checking uric acid is checking urine.

Since hyperuricemia has no symptoms, most people will not actively seek treatment even if they know that their uric acid level is high, and allow it to develop. Little do they know that high uric acid has become a risk factor that seriously threatens health.

Studies have shown that long-term elevation of uric acid in the blood will cause urate to deposit in the joints and surrounding tissues, causing acute severe pain, redness and swelling in the toes, ankles, knee joints, etc. If arthritis recurs, tophi may form, leading to joint deformities and local ulcers, affecting normal life and work.

If hyperuricemia is not actively controlled and treated, it will damage the kidneys and cause uric acid nephropathy. Patients with long-term hyperuricemia are likely to develop chronic kidney damage, and multiple stones can lead to abnormal kidney morphology, decreased renal function, and even failure. At the same time, hyperuricemia often interacts with diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, etc., forming a vicious circle and leading to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.