Abstracts tagged "direct effect and indirect effect"

Abstract Number: 2077 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Population Impact Attributable to Modifiable Risk Factors for Hyperuricemia and the Fallacy of the Variance Explained
Natalie McCormick ¹, Na Lu ², Sharan Rai ³, Chio Yokose ⁴, Yuqing Zhang ⁴ and Hyon K. Choi⁴, ¹Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ²Massachusetts General Hosptial, Boston, MA, ³Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, ⁴Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: In a seminal BMJ paper (Prior 1986), the Tokelau Island migrant study for gout and hyperuricemia concluded preventive strategies to modify body mass, diet…