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Abstract Serum uric acid (SUA) has been linked to mortality in heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, obstructive sleep apnea, and metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease. However, data are lacking on how it affects the mortality risk of patients with cardiovascluar disease (CVD). This study evaluated the data of 4 308 individuals from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2008 using multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression, trend, restricted cubic splines (RCS), subgroup and inflection point analyses. All-cause and cardiovascular mortality accounted for 42.8% and 17.6% of cases, respectively, over a median 80- month follow-up. Upon control for confounding variables, no linear trend was seen in the Cox proportional hazards regression analysis between SUA and all-cause (P = 0.001) or cardiovascular death (P = 0.007) mortality. On the RCS analysis, SUA showed an L-shaped connection with all-cause (non-linear P |