The Relationship of Excess of Uric Acid in the Blood to Eczema and Allied Dermatoses

The Link between Reiter's Syndrome and Psoriatic Arthritis

“…The use of corticosteroids and their withdrawal led to a severe exacerbation of the psoriasis which did not respond again to their use. The persistently raised serum uric acid is of interest in view of reports of this in cases of psoriasis (Schamberg and Brown, 1923;Herrmann, 1930;Kaplan and Klatskiti, 1960;Baumann and Jillson, 1961).…”

Metabolic Influences in Vascular Disorders With Particular Reference To Cholesterol Determinations in Comparison With Uric Acid Levels

“…patients (27.3 per cent) showed hypercholesterolemia, whereas32 (72.7 per cent) were within accepted normal limits. Observing the problem in this manner, the incidence of high uric acid levels is considerably higher than the comparable number of patients with high cholesterol.The above studies suggest that metabolic influences play a prominent role in the development of atheromatosis.…”

The Relationship of Blood Uric Acid Content to the State of Renal Function in Nephritis

“…Gout, leukemia, and pneumonia had for many years been known to cause this increase, but newer work indicated that in addition, a rise in the level of blood uric acid could be found in pernicious anemia (7), carbon monoxide poisoning (8), toxemias of pregnancy (9), erythemia (10), eczema (11), and during the first few days of life (12). Umeda (13) had shown that normal individuals excreted only small amounts of uric acid when on excessively high fat diets, but it remained for Lennox (14,15) and Harding (16) and his collaborators to show that this decreased excretion was accompanied by a remarkable increase in the blood uric acid either during starvation, or as the result of a ketogenic diet.…”