过去认为高尿酸血症多数在男性中发病,女性少见;有人报告女性高尿酸血症只占全部病例的6.27%。近年认为女性高尿酸血症的患病率有增高的趋势,如最近一项流行病学研究表明,在15%的女性中发现血清尿酸水平增高,40%的老年女性患高尿酸血症。但直至目前对老年和更年期女性尿酸代谢 In the past that the majority of patients with hyperuricemia onset in women, rare in women; some reports of female hyperuricemia accounted for only 6.27% of all cases. In recent years, the prevalence of hyperuricemia in women has been on the rise, as evidenced by a recent epidemiological study showing elevated serum uric acid levels in 15% of women and hyperuricemia in 40% of older women. But up to now uric acid metabolism in elderly and menopausal women