A coronary artery disease-associated SNP rs6903956 contributed to asymptomatic hyperuricemia susceptibility in Han Chinese

Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study population

Category		Cases (n = 221)		Controls (n = 446)		p ^a
Category		n	%	n	%	p ^a
Age (mean ± SD)		51.9 ± 13.6		51.3 ± 12.5		0.544
Gender	Males	158	71.5	184	41.3	<0.001
Gender	Females	63	28.5	262	58.7
BMI(mean ± SD)		26.2 ± 3.3		24.5 ± 3.2		<0.001
Smoking	Yes	105	47.5	124	27.8	<0.001
Smoking	No	116	52.5	322	72.2
Drinking	Yes	76	34.4	67	15.0	<0.001
Drinking	No	145	65.6	379	85.0
Hypertension	Yes	89	40.3	56	12.6	<0.001
Hypertension	No	132	59.7	390	87.4
Diabetes mellitus	Yes	3	1.4	0	0.0	0.036
Diabetes mellitus	No	218	98.6	446	100.0
Abnormal glycometabolism	Yes	77	34.8	29	6.5	<0.001
Abnormal glycometabolism	No	144	65.2	417	93.5
Lipid abnormality	Yes	99	44.8	3	0.7	< 0.001
Lipid abnormality	No	122	55.2	443	99.3
C-reactive protein (mg/L)		4.04 ± 4.38		3.84 ± 3.26		0.527
Uric acid level (μmol/L)		467.4 ± 56.9		269.6 ± 56.2		< 0.001

^acontinuous variables were evaluated using Student’s t-test; categorical variables were Chi-square test.

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