The cardiac effects of high uric acid are that it may induce cardiovascular disease and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Uric acid is the end product of purine metabolism, and elevated blood uric acid is often comorbid with metabolic syndrome-related disorders such as hypertension, hyperglycemia, and hyperlipidemia.
Hyperuricemia is an independent risk factor for death from coronary heart disease. High uric acid stimulates intimal hyperplasia of the blood vessel wall causing inflammatory reactions, oxidative stress leading to vascular sclerosis and reduced vascular elasticity, which may increase the risk of hypertension and cause damage to the heart.
Patients with high uric acid need a low purine diet, avoid seafood, animal offal, broth and other high-purine diet, drink plenty of water, appropriate exercise, if after lifestyle adjustments the blood uric acid level is still high patients can follow the doctor’s instructions to take allopurinol, febuxostat, phenylbromarone and other uric acid-lowering drugs.
It is recommended that patients with high blood uric acid go to the rheumatology and immunology department and endocrinology department of regular hospitals, and standardize the diagnosis and treatment under the guidance of doctors.