Patients whose blood uric acid alone is 100 μmol/L higher than normal usually have a relatively mild condition that can be improved with effective uric acid-lowering therapy. The condition is more serious if the patient is combined with comorbidities such as gout, gouty nephropathy, or metabolic syndromes such as hypertension or diabetes mellitus.
Normal adult male blood uric acid is 150~416 μmol/L, female 89~357 μmol/L. If the fasting blood uric acid is >420 μmol/L in 2 tests not on the same day, then the diagnosis of hyperuricemia is made. Some patients with hyperuricemia can live their whole life without gout, gouty nephropathy and other manifestations, i.e. asymptomatic hyperuricemia, which is relatively mild.
If the patient’s blood uric acid is 100 μmol/L higher than the normal value, combined with the above manifestations, or with metabolic syndromes such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, atherosclerosis, etc., which have a greater impact on the patient’s multi-system and multi-organ function and affect the patient’s quality of life, the condition is usually more serious.
It is recommended that patients with high blood uric acid should go to the rheumatology and immunology department of the hospital in time and receive standardized treatment under the guidance of the doctor to avoid delaying their condition.