The Claim

In elderly patients with hyperuricemia, a poor-quality protein diet is present in over 95% of individuals with elevated serum uric acid levels.

Source: The Relationship of Protein Diet with Uric Acid Levels in the Elderly in Outpatient Polyclinics : A Cross-sectional Study

What the research says

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Supports
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Correlation
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In plain English

Among elderly people with high uric acid levels, more than 95% consume a diet with poor-quality protein.

See the scientific wording

In elderly patients with hyperuricemia, a poor-quality protein diet is present in over 95% of those with elevated serum uric acid levels, suggesting a strong association between dietary protein quality and uric acid status.

Why this might work

When a person eats proteins from organ meats and other low-quality sources, the body breaks down purines in those proteins into uric acid, which builds up in the blood because the kidneys cannot remove it fast enough.

Supported mechanismbased on 1 study

What the research says

1 study

  1. Study: The Relationship of Protein Diet with Uric Acid Levels in the Elderly in Outpatient Polyclinics : A Cross-sectional Study

    In older adults with high uric acid, almost all of them (over 95%) were found to eat diets low in good protein and high in bad proteins like organ meats — the study directly checked this and found it to be true.

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