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Urate-lowering treatment and risk of total joint replacement in patients with gout
OBJECTIVES: To examine whether gout is an independent risk factor for total joint replacement (TJR) and whether urate-lowering treatment (ULT) reduces this risk. METHODS: Using the Taiwan National Health Insurance database and the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink, 74 560 Taiwan patients and 34...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6256332/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30060176 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/key212 |