Relation between serum triglyceride level, serum urate concentration, and fractional urate excretion.

The relations between serum urate levels and age, serum cholesterol, creatinine, glucose, and triglyceride concentrations were studied in 930 men and 298 premenopausal and 478 postmenopausal women, taking into account the renal handling of uric acid. All subjects were outpatients, and statistical evaluation was performed on cases corresponding to the central 95th percentile of the biochemical variables measured. An alternative analysis excluding subjects with serum glucose or creatinine levels outside the normal range was also performed.