diabetes and allopurinol Archives - ACR Meeting Abstracts

Abstract Number: 353 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Allopurinol Use and Type 2 Diabetes Incidence Among Patients with Gout: A VA Cohort Study
Anastasia Slobodnick¹, Michael Toprover ², Courtney Pike ³, Daria Crittenden ⁴, Jeffrey Greenberg ⁵ and Michael Pillinger ², ¹New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, ²New York University School of Medicine, New York, ³Rheumatology Section, NY Harbor VA Healthcare System, New York, ⁴Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, ⁵Corrona, LLC; NYU School of Medicine, Waltham, MA
Background/Purpose: Several studies implicate gout and/or xanthine oxidase activity as risk factors for type 2 diabetes. However, no studies have directly evaluated the effect of…

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