El eslabón perdido del síndrome metabólico: hiperlipemia posprandial y estrés oxidativo

What is the role of hyperuricemia among all these events? Are elevated uric acid levels a marker for cardiovascular risk or a cardiovascular risk factor? On the one hand, there is superoxide radical production and on the other, the antioxidant effect of uric acid. This paradox has led to the publication of some studies that demonstrate that allopurinol administration, which lowers uric acid levels, reduces reactive oxygen species and to others that show that elevation of uric acid levels increases the antioxidant ability of plasma