A Clinical Profile of Patients with Hyperuricemia and the Relationship between Hyperuricemia and Metabolic Syndrome: A Cross-sectional Study at a Tertiary Hospital in the Indian Population.

Introduction: Metabolic syndrome is a constellation of interrelated risk factors that increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes mellitus. The increase in prevalence of hyperuricemia was considered to be directly related to increasing incidence of obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in developing and developed countries. Hyperuricemia is defined as serum uric acid of 6.