www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN received: 20 June 2016 accepted: 30 November 2016 Published: 04 January 2017 Serum uric acid levels are associated with obesity but not cardio-cerebrovascular events in Chinese inpatients with type diabetes Ming-Yun Chen1,*, Cui-Chun Zhao1,2,*, Ting-Ting Li1, Yue Zhu1, Tian-Pei Yu1, Yu-Qian Bao1, Lian-Xi Li1 & Wei-Ping Jia1 We aim to explore the associations between serum uric acid (SUA) and obesity and cardiocerebrovascular events (CCEs) in Chinese inpatients with type diabetes mellitus (T2DM) 962 inpatients with T2DM were stratified into quartile based on SUA concentrations There were significant increases in the prevalence of both obesity (32.6%, 41.9%, 50.1%, and 62.8%, respectively, p