Uric acid and hypertension: a focused review and practical recommendations
This article is a review of hyperuricemia and its relationship with hypertension. It states that lifestyle modifications that reduce uric acid levels should be part of the treatment of pre-hypertension and people with normal blood pressure and a positive family history of hypertension. The is a mild reduction of blood pressure asociated to xanthine oxidase inhibition.
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De Becker, Benjamin, Claudio Borghi, Michel Bournier, Phillipe van de Borne. “Uric acid and hypertension: a focused review and practical recommendations." Journal of Hypertension 37, no. 5 (2019): 878–883. doi: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000001980
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Uric acid control may be used as one of the tools which may help with the control of hypertension
Keeping in mind that hypertension is most of the times multifactorial and that xanthine oxidase inhibition has only a mild effect.