Hyperuricaemia in congenital heart disease patients

Hyperuricaemia is associated with traditional cardiovascular risk factors such as type 2 diabetes or dyslipidaemia and a higher mortality.

Out of 528 congenital heart disease patients, 329 patients, including 190 male and 139 female patients, in whom uric acid determination was performed, were studied and followed up to determine survival.

Male congenital heart disease patients with high serum uric acid concentrations (>7 mg/dl) showed significantly (p < 0.05) higher body mass index, serum creatinine, total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol, triglycerides, and C-reactive protein concentrations than those male congenital heart disease patients with lower serum uric acid levels (≤7 mg/dl). Meanwhile, female congenital heart disease patients with higher serum uric acid concentrations (>5.7 mg/dl) were significantly (p < 0.05) younger, more hypoxaemic, more obese, and with higher C-reactive protein and N-terminal-pro-B-type natriuretic peptide levels than those female congenital heart disease patients with lower serum uric acid concentrations (≤5.7 mg/dl). During a median follow-up of 90 months, 16 out of 528 congenital heart disease patients died - 14 patients of cardiac origin and two patients of non-cardiac origin - of whom 10 were hypoxaemic. Kaplan-Meier analysis showed no significant differences in mortality between male and female congenital heart disease patients with high and low serum uric acid level concentrations.

Hypoxaemia, body mass index, and C-reactive protein concentrations are higher in hyperuricaemic congenital heart disease patients, although no significant differences were seen in mortality between congenital heart disease patients with high and low serum uric acid concentrations.