Serum Urate and Recurrent Gout.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Approximately 12 million adults in the US have a history of gout, but whether serum urate levels can help predict recurrence is unclear.

Objective

To assess associations of a single serum urate measurement with subsequent risk of acute gout flares and subsequent risk of hospitalizations for gout among patients in the UK with a history of gout.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective study included patients with a history of gout identified from the UK between 2006 and 2010 who were followed up through Primary Care Linked Data medical record linkage until 2017 and through the Hospital Episode Statistics database until 2020.

Exposures

Serum urate levels at enrollment.

Main outcome and measure

Rate of recurrent acute gout, ascertaine

SUBMITTER: McCormick N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10848075 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature