The Relationship between Uric Acid/Albumin Ratio and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Patients with Hypertension

To the Editor,

We carefully read the article entitled: “The relationship between the uric acid/albumin ratio and the carotid intima-media thickness in patients with hypertension“, whose objective was to investigate the association of the uric acid/albumin ratio (UAR) and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) in hypertensive patients. Although the present study demonstrated a significant correlation between UAR and CIMT, with UAR showing greater discriminatory capacity for increased CIMT values than uric acid and albumin alone and than the other inflammatory markers analyzed in the study, such as the systemic immune inflammation index (III), the neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR), the platelet/lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and the C-reactive protein/albumin ratio (CAR), some aspects observed, when reading the article, are worthy of note.

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