Association between serum vitamin D and uric acid in the eastern Chinese population: a population-based cross-sectional study.

What Was Tested

The paper reports a study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc, published as an observational study.

Uric acid (UA) is the end product of purine metabolism, which is thought to be related to many human diseases, such as nephrolithiasis, gout, cardiovascular disease (CVD), type 2 diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome.

However, the relationship between serum UA (SUA) and 25(OH) D is still unclear in the eastern Chinese population.

Who Took Part

According to the abstract, 9220 subjects were involved.

PubMed indexes the participants as adults, middle-aged adults and older adults, both men and women.

Ultimately, data from 9220 subjects were analyzed.

Questionnaires were collected from these subjects for information on smoking and drinking status.

How the Study Was Run

The researchers did a population-based observational investigation, which included 12,770 residents living in eastern China.

Serum 25(OH) D, SUA, fasting plasma glucose (FPG), fasting insulin, HbA1c and other metabolic parameters were tested.

Waist circumference (WC), weight and height were also measured.

What Was Measured

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Blood Glucose, Body Mass Index, Case-Control Studies, China, Glycated Hemoglobin, Hyperuricemia and Insulin.

The authors tagged it with the keywords Public health, Uric acid and Vitamin D.

What This Means in Plain Language

This is an observational study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc in 9220 subjects.

With several hundred people or more, it is a fairly large study for this kind of research.

The abstract goes on to report its results in about 6 sentences; this page does not restate them, so read the paper for the findings and their limits.

The publication is from 2020 (BMC endocrine disorders), a journal based in England.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.