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01-12-2017 | Letter to the Editor
Letter to editor: The waist circumference-adjusted associations between hyperuricemia and other lifestyle-related diseases: methodological issues in cross-sectional study
Authors:
Shiva Mansouri Hanis, Fatemeh Khosravi Shadmani, Kamyar Mansori
Published in:
Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome
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Issue 1/2017
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Excerpt
We studied the article written by Miyagami et al. [
1] that published in Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome journal in February 2017. The aim of this study was the relationship between hyperuricemia and lifestyle-related diseases after adjusting with waist circumference (WC). Finally, the authors of this study concluded that Hyperuricemia is an independent predictor of several lifestyle-related diseases, even after adjusting for age, WC, and lifestyle in both sexes which is closely related with insulin resistance. Hyperuricemia might require greater attention during the prevention of lifestyle-related diseases and future cardiovascular disease [
1]. However, although this was an appropriate research and its results were very interesting, some methodological issues should be considered.
1.
Miyagami et al. [
1] evaluated the predictive performance hyperuricemia on several lifestyle-related diseases in a cross-sectional study, whereas longitudinal researches are necessary for making assumptions in clinical prediction models [
2]. In other words, assurance of the temporality assumption presence (the dependent variable has to occur after the independent variable) is essential in the prediction model. Thus, prediction models resulting from cross-sectional designs can be misleading [
2,
3].
2.
Considering the predictive performance of hyperuricemia on several lifestyle-related diseases is an optimistic interpretation. The internal and external validation of the prediction model must be done through bootstrapping and split-validation, respectively [
4].
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