Serum uric acid in US adolescents: Distribution and relationship to demographic characteristics and cardiovascular risk factors

Pediatric Research

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-100

  Shatat, Ibrahim F ^a   Abdallah, Rany T ^a   Sas, David J ^a   Hailpern, Susan M ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Medical University of South Carolina ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH AND NUTRITION EXAMINATION SURVEY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED STATES; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; BIOMARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URIC ACID;

EID: 84862529458     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/pr.2012.47     Document Type: Article

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