PTH and chronic kidney disease: Although our study is not the first study to investigate these associations in the CKD population, our study has the strengths over the previous studies in that it included a large number of patients with CKD (n = 1025) and assessed a variety of variables that could affect the LVH/LVDD in patients with CKD, such as intact PTH, phosphate, left atrial volume, etc. Thus, our study provides more solid evidence for the association between SUA and LVH/LVDD in the CKD population and raises awareness of the importance of SUA during the development of LVH/LVDD in the CKD population.