Can obesity cause elevated uric acid

Obesity does not directly cause elevated uric acid, but obesity often coexists with elevated uric acid.
Elevated uric acid is mainly associated with abnormal purine metabolism, if you do not pay attention to diet, purine high food eat too much can cause high uric acid.
The main reason for obesity is that the intake of calories is greater than the consumption of calories, high uric acid and obesity may exist between a certain correlation, but is not a cause and effect relationship, through the control of blood glucose, blood pressure and blood lipids, as well as uric acid, to help prevent a variety of metabolic disorders in obese people.
Patients with high uric acid need to try to avoid high purine diet, like thick meat soup, chicken soup, fish soup, hot pot soup as far as possible to avoid. In addition, animal offal, and even a variety of nuts should be eaten less. Normally drink more water to promote uric acid excretion, and appropriate exercise.
It is recommended that patients with obesity and high uric acid actively adjust their lifestyle, and if necessary, go to the hospital for consultation and standardized treatment under the guidance of nutritional specialists.