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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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Autores principales: Kuo, Chang-Fu, Chou, I-Jun, See, Lai-Chu, Chen, Jung-Sheng, Yu, Kuang-Hui, Luo, Shue-Fen, Hsieh, Ao-Ho, Zhang, Weiya, Doherty, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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