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Is gout a risk equivalent to diabetes for stroke and myocardial infarction? A retrospective claims database study

BACKGROUND: Gout is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, but associations with specific cardiovascular outcomes, myocardial infarction (MI), and stroke are unclear. Our objective in the present study was to assess whether gout is as strong a risk factor as diabetes mellitus (DM) for incident MI...

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Autores principales: Singh, Jasvinder A., Ramachandaran, Rekha, Yu, Shaohua, Yang, Shuo, Xie, Fenglong, Yun, Huifeng, Zhang, Jie, Curtis, Jeffrey R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5646136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29041963
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13075-017-1427-5