Volume : 4, Issue : 8, August - 2015

CORRELATION OF SERUM URIC ACID LEVELS IN GOUTY AND NON GOUTY OSTEOARTHRITIS

Sharad Chandra Vijayvergiya, Ajay Kumar Bhargava, Mohit Sharma, Vishnu Datt Bohra

Abstract :

<p>Gout a kind of osteoarthritis caused by too much uric acid in blood. High level in blood of some population not get gout but affected by arthritis. In our study we demonstrated determination of uric acid in 50 gouty osteoarthritis and 50 non gouty osteoarthritis and in 50 normal healthy subjects. In gouty osteoarthritis mean &plusmn; S.D serum uric acid was 9.3 &plusmn; 2.6, in gouty osteoarthritis 7.25 &plusmn; 1.38 and in normal healthy control it was 5.97 &plusmn; 1.38. Correlation between these subjects were found to be significant when compared between normal subject and gouty osteoarthritis (p &lt; 0.001) and Non gouty osteoarthritis (p &lt; 0.005). The prevalence of gouty arthritis and non gouty arthritis in present study indicated that a sincere efforts have been made to identify these disease and management too.</p>