Itabashi CampusA research group led by Professor Shibata of the Department Internal Medicine at Teikyo University School of Medicine has discovered the mechanism by which metabolic syndrome and genes affect uric acid levels.

On Friday, May 16, 2025, a research group including Professor Shibata Shigeru, Department of Advanced Comprehensive Research Organization Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, and Special Assistant Professor Fujii Wataru, Advanced Research Institute, in collaboration with Professor Takada Yuta, Institute for Intractable Diseases, Tokyo University of Science, Graduate School of Science, clarified the mechanism by which serum uric acid levels tend to rise with obesity, and the role of genes as a factor in constitution (gene-environment interaction).

The results of this study were published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation on Thursday, May 15, 2025.

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