Food Sources of Protein and Risk of Incident Gout in the Singapore Chinese Health Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Prospective studies evaluating diet in relation to the risk of gout in Asian populations are lacking. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the consumption of dietary protein from each of its major sources and the risk of gout in a Chinese population.

Methods

We used data from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a prospective cohort of 63,257 Chinese adults who were 45-74 years old at recruitment during the years 1993-1998. Habitual diet information was collected via a validated semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire, and physician-diagnosed gout was self-reported during 2 followup interviews up to the year 2010. Cox proportional hazards models were used to calculate the hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs),

SUBMITTER: Teng GG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4939435 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature