Abstracts tagged "myocardial involvement and pharmacotherapy"

Abstract Number: 201 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Allopurinol Reduces the Risk of Myocardial Infarction (MI) in the Elderly: A Study of Medicare Claims
Jasvinder A. Singh¹ and Shaohua Yu², ¹Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: To assess whether allopurinol use reduces the risk of myocardial infarction (MI) in the elderly. Methods: We used the 2006-2012 5% random sample of…