Gambaran Asam Urat Serum Pada Vegetarian Lacto - Ovo

Abstract

: Purine is generated through three mechanisms: de novo synthesis, salvage pathway, and food consumption. Most purine derived from food is converted to uric acid directly, without the occurrence of nucleic acid network. Lacto-ovo vegetarian is a lifestyle that consist of consuming food like vegetables, fruits, nuts, tofu, tempe plus milk and eggs. The intake of food in vegetarian lacto-ovo, some of them are high in purines. The purpose of this research is to describe serum uric acid levels in lacto-ovo vegetarians. This study used a cross sectional with a total sampling as the sampling method. There were 25 respondents that participated in this study. From 25 respondents found as many as seven respondents (28%) who had high uric acid levels and 18 respondent (72%) had serum uric acid levels in the normal range