title: Population serum urate levels and their correlates. The Sherbrooke regional study.
abstract: A natural population has been studied for its serum urate levels and for host factors associated with these levels. Householdhood, ethnicity, drug and alcohol use were found to be negligible behavioral attributes with respect to population serum urate concentrations. Of interest among significant correlates of serum urate are smoking behavior, serum protein, creatinine, calcium and monocyte count. Predominant statistically significant host factors, however, are sex, body weight and age, body weight being linearly related in both sexes and age in females only.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D004739:England / Q000208:ethnology; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011792:Quebec; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012737:Sex Factors; D012907:Smoking; D014527:Uric Acid / Q000097:blood*
chemical_list: D014527:Uric Acid