Fig. 1From: High serum uric acid within the normal range is a useful predictor of hypertension among Japanese community-dwelling elderly womenFlowchart. For the cross-sectional analyses, data of the 2014 cycle (n = 1650) were used as hypertension was measured in this cycle. For the longitudinal analyses, a sub-cohort of the 2014 cycle was used including only participants in whom hypertension was not prevalent at baseline in 2014 (n = 391)Back to article page