Serum Uric Acid Levels and the Risk of Flares among Gout Patients in a US Managed Care Setting.

CONCLUSION: These findings confirm that higher sUA levels are associated with an increased risk of gout flares in a dose-response manner over 2 years. These data support the need to treat to sUA target levels as recommended by recent gout care guidelines. Claims-based algorithms were used to identify gout flares; although this would not be expected to influence estimates of risk by sUA level, there may have been over- or under-estimation of the incidence of flares. PMID: 27659103 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Medical Research and Opinion - Category: Research Tags: Curr Med Res Opin Source Type: research