Objective To understand the prevalence and risk factors of hyperuricemia of traffic police in in a city, and furthermore to provide orientation to intervene the hyperuricemia in this occupational group.

Methods Totally 2 228 traffic police who had physical examination in 2015 were studied. The questionnaire survey and related examination was done. The risk factors of hyperuricemia were analyzed by using multivariate logistic regression analysis.

Results Most of the study subjects were males(89.10%) with the average age (41.33 ±7.51) years. The crude prevalence of hyperuricemia was 53.30% with the increasing trend with age(P < 0.05). The difference of average levels of serum uric acid among different age groups was statistically significant(P < 0.05), while persons aged 40-50 had the highest level of serum uric acid(434.76 ±98.07 μmol/L). It was noted that male, overweight, obesity and hypertriglyceridemia were risk factors of hyperuricemia, and the value of OR were 3.48 (95%CI 2.52-4.80, vs. female), 2.25 (95%CI 1.86-2.72, vs. normal BMI), 3.49 (95%CI 2.35-5.18, vs. non-obesity) and 2.22 (95%CI 1.76-2.79, vs. non-hypertriglyceridemia), respectively.

Conclusion Hyperuricemia had a high prevalence in traffic police in this city. We should pay more attention to the health of the traffic police aged over 45 years, strengthening their health education to reduce the incidence of hyperuricemia.