Secular trend of gout incidence in the UK: an age-period-cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The incidence of gout in the UK appears to have declined since 2013; however, whether such a trend occurred across participants born in different years (ie, birth cohort) is unknown. We aimed to examine the effects of the birth cohort on gout incidence using an age-period-cohort (APC) model.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Nationwide data from the UK primary care database.

Participants

Individuals between 30 and 89 years of age were included. We excluded individuals who had gout history when entering the database and individuals with less than 1 year of continuous follow-up between 1 January 1999 and 31 December 2019.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Gout was identified using READ codes assigned by general practitioners. The incide

SUBMITTER: Ye J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10826541 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature