PITTSBURGH, Aug. 3 -- Gout and hyperuricemia are independent predictors of heart attack in men, according to an analysis of nearly 13,000 participants in a major trial.
This was the first study to identify a significant risk of acute MI among men with gout and no history of coronary artery disease, wrote Eswar Krishnan, M.D., M.P.H., and colleagues, of the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pennsylvania in the August issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism. /.../
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