Serum uric acid and new-onset hypertension: a possible therapeutic avenue?

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This is a difficult question to answer because defining when the precursor to the chicken became a chicken is impossible, so we can never be sure in which geological strata we should look for fossils. To an extent the same applies to hypertension. At what point does blood pressure become too high and in need of reduction? All definitions we have are artificial numerical thresholds based on a value...