Epidemiology of cardiac or orthopedic procedures in gout versus rheumatoid arthritis: a national time-trends study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To examine the secular trends in the number and rates of in-hospital cardiac and orthopedic procedures in people with gout and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and the United States (US) general population, from 1998 to 2014.

Methods

We examined the frequency of seven common cardiac and orthopedic procedures in hospitalized people with gout, RA, or the general population using the 1998-2014 US National Inpatient Sample (NIS). Poisson regression evaluated the differences in frequencies in 1998 versus 2014, between gout and RA, and within each cohort.

Results

Both in-hospital cardiac and orthopedic procedures increased in gout and RA with time, in contrast with declining cardiac procedures in the general US population. Cardiac procedures were significantly higher

SUBMITTER: Singh JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7934033 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature