Gao Z, et al. - Researchers attempted to examine different types of hyperuricemia (HUA) in type 2 diabetes patients. Four hundred thirty-five inpatients with type 2 diabetes were included at the Metabolic Disease Hospital of Tianjin Medical University from 2015 to 2016. They discovered that excretion-decreased HUA was a more common type of HUA in type 2 diabetes patients that could be caused by dysfunction of tubular excretion rather than structural damage, however, the mixed type of HUA patients had the severest kidney glomerular and tubular damage vs the normal uric acid group. According to their own characteristics, different types of hyperuricemia should be given individualized treatment.