Abstracts tagged "Gout and metabolic syndrome"

Abstract Number: 1300 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
The Relationship between Metabolic Syndrome Severity and the Risk of Mortality in Gout Patients: A Population Based Study
Mohamed Elsaid¹, Vinod Rustgi² and Naomi Schlesinger³, ¹Department of Epidemiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brusnwick, NJ, ²Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, ³Department of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ
Background/Purpose: The metabolic syndrome (MS) is common among gout patients. The metabolic syndrome is diagnosed when a patient has at least 3 of the following…