Flow-mediated dilation can be used to predict incident hypertension in patients with hyperuricemia.

Conclusions: Patients with hyperuricemia have an increased risk of developing hypertension, and low baseline FMD in hyperuricemia patients is associated with significantly increased risk of incident hypertension. PMID: 30899286 [PubMed]
Source: Archives of Medical Science - Category: General Medicine Tags: Arch Med Sci Source Type: research