Is uric acid high kidney disease

High uric acid is not necessarily kidney disease, kidney disease is only one of the causes of high uric acid. Many other causes may lead to high uric acid. For example, some congenital purine metabolic disorders, purine metabolic defects may cause high uric acid.

There are other genetic diseases, such as glycogen storage disease type I, and some blood diseases, such as leukemia, myeloma, after chemotherapy and radiotherapy, because of excessive uric acid production, can lead to hyperuricemia.

Some drugs such as furosemide can inhibit uric acid excretion, can also lead to hyperuricemia. High uric acid is not kidney disease, need to improve other kidney related tests, such as urine protein quantitative, urine red blood cell count, blood creatinine level, kidney B ultrasound, etc.