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Jack L. Katz, MD; Herbert Weiner, MD; Alexander Gutman, MD; Ts'ai-Fan Yu, MD

JAMA. 1973;224(9):1251-1257.

Abstract
Eight pairs of adult brothers (in one instance, actually first cousins raised together), all with family histories of gout and therefore likely to have hyperuricemia, were examined for possible correlations between achievement-related variables and relative serum uric acid (SUA) levels within each pair. Manifest achievement, achievement orientation, and achievement drive did not reliably predict which brother in each pair possessed the higher SUA level. However, when the variable of obesitydietary content was employed, significant predictive success was attained. Obesity did not correlate with achievement drive. However, the tonic and phasic eating histories of our subjects do suggest a possible explanation for the previous reports of a correlation between SUA level and such achievement-related variables.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center, Bronx (Drs. Katz and Weiner), and the Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York (Drs. Gutman and Yu).

Footnotes
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