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Elevated Uric acid
Good morning, my husband (55y old) recently underwent a routine medical checkup and there are a few findings I would like your recommendations on: 1) Elevated Uric acid (432umo/L); 2) Elevated LDL cholesterol; 3) Elevated ferritin (474ng/L). For reference, he exercises regularly, smokes 3 cigars a week and regularly drinks alcohol (wine and whiskey), which has resulted in a fatty liver diagnosis.
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Hi @Iryna Klevetenko is your husband willing to make lifestyle changes and quit smoking/alcohol after receiving that diagnosis?
Although your husband wasn’t diagnosed with gout, I would like you to refer to the Gout symptom dictionary handout HERE, as it shares common contributing factors for high uric acid (called hyperuricemia).
Of course, alcohol is a big contributor, therefore, eliminating alcohol altogether would be ideal and would improve his health in many ways.
Now realistically, I know this may be difficult for a regular drinker to give it up, so either he can start weaning by reducing the quantity by half until he can easily let it go, and/or “keep the ritual, but change the habit” until better habits can be made.
Ritual Zero Proof for example is a company that offers alcohol alternatives. Here’s the whiskey alternative.
As for LDL, it should always be put into context with the other lipid markers if you can share those too. But you can find more information about high LDL HERE from the Understanding Basic Blood Chem course as a starting point.
And you can find insights about high ferritin HERE, also from our Blood Chemistry course. High ferritin > 400 can be a sign of acute inflammation or a genetic condition called hemochromatosis. But again, we’d need much more information and a full picture of his iron panel and previous history of iron to better understand what is at play.
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Thank you Bernadette, yes he will change his life style we already started from yesterday) will send his lipid markers in few hours. Thank you
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