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Ruth Giesser1, Tanya Goltser-Dubner1,2, Dalya Pevzner1,2
1Herman-Dana Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
Objective:
Uric acid (UA) is increasingly recognized as having important physiological roles and associated with several peripheral and central pathophysiological outcomes, and might play a role in eating disorders (ED) pathogenesis. We investigated whether UA levels are altered among adolescents with ED.
Methods:
Morning salivary UA concentrations were compared between adolescents referred to treatment at the Herman Dana Center receiving a DSM-V diagnosis of an ED and matched healthy controls.
Results:
Salivary UA was significantly elevated among ED compared with control values (ED mean 3.9 ± 1.2 mg/dl, control mean 2.9 ± 1.9 mg/dl, t = - 3.13 df = 81, p = 0.003).
Discussion:
Salivary UA is elevated among adolescents with ED. Further studies are required to replicate and extend this finding and evaluate its generalizability as a state or trait marker as regards ED subtypes, other body fluids (plasma and cerebrospinal fluid), and recovery or premorbid stages, as well as its putative mechanistic relevance to ED.
Level Of Evidence:
Level III, case-control analytic study.
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