hyperuricemia
Noun
Meaning
hyperuricemia (usually uncountable, plural hyperuricemias)
An abnormally high level of uric acid in one's blood.
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About 10% of people with hyperuricemia develop gout at some point in their lifetimes. citation The risk, however, varies depending on the degree of hyperuricemia.
Blood tests Hyperuricemia is a classic feature of gout, but it occurs nearly half of the time without hyperuricemia and most people with raised uric acid levels never develop gout.
Some practitioners advocate adding allopurinol only in people in whom hyperuricosuria and hyperuricemia persist, despite the use of a urine- alkalinizing agent such as sodium bicarbonate or potassium citrate.
Gout may be diagnosed and treated without further investigations in someone with hyperuricemia and the classic acute arthritis of the base of the great toe (known as podagra).
The drug is also used in people with gout or hyperuricemia (high serum uric acid levels).
Underexcretion of uric acid by the kidney is the primary cause of hyperuricemia in about 90% of cases, while overproduction is the cause in less than 10%.