Abstract:
Objective To investigate the relationship between serum free fatty acid (FFA) level and hyperuricemia (HUA) in young and middle-aged people.
Methods A total of 176 apparently healthy young and middle-aged males who underwent physical examination in Zhu Xianyi Memorial Hospital of Tianjin Medical University from March 2018 to March 2020 were randomly selected and divided into HUA group (n=117) and healthy control group (n=59) according to HUA diagnostic criteria. Their basic information such as age and body mass index (BMI), were collected, Laboratory test results of FFA, blood uric acid (SUA), total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), highdensity lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), blood glucose (GlU), total protein (TP), albumin (ALB), GLOB, white globulin ratio (A/G), UREA (UREA), creatinine (Cr), estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) were analyzed with software SPSS 25.0. Spearman correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis were used to evaluate the correlation between FFA and SUA levels, and multivariate binary Logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate the correlation between FFA and the risk for HUA.
Results Compared with healthy control group, the levels of SUA, TC, TG, FFA, TP, ALB and UREA in HUA group were significantly higher (P<0.05, P<0.01). There were no significant differences in age, BMI, Glu, HDL-C, LDL-C, GLOB, A/G, Cr and eGFR levels between two groups (P>0.05). There was a positive correlation between FFA and SUA level in HUA group (r=0.22, P =0.015). After further adjustment for age, BMI, Glu, TC, TG, HDL-C, LDL-C, TP, ALB, GLOB, A/G, UREA, Cr and eGFR, FFA was still independently correlated with SUA level (β=0.08, 95% CI: 0.04-0.13, P<0.001), and the risk for HUA in young and middle-aged adults increased with the increase of serum FFA quintile level (odds ratio increased gradually).
Conclusion Serum FFA level increased in young and middle-aged adults with HUA, and serum FFA level was correlated with the risk for developing HUA in young and middle-aged adults.