Peter Attia· MD
maybe uric acid could have a role in causing kidney disease through causing high blood pressure through its ability to cause kidney disease
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maybe uric acid could have a role in causing kidney disease through causing high blood pressure through its ability to cause kidney disease
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there was a lot of epidemiologic studies that linked uric acid with high blood pressure
but one thing that seems to drive it is a high uric acid and when we found this we we did some studies in in adolescence and we found that these adolescents were overweight many of them had a high uric acid and they were discovered to have high blood pressure