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Abstract Number: 2289 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Obesity and Echocardiographic Changes in the Different Stages of Gout
Rada Gancheva¹, Atanas Kundurdjiev², Mariana Ivanova¹, Todor Kundurzhiev³ and Zlatimir Kolarov¹, ¹Medical Faculty, Medical University, University Hospital "St. Iv. Rilski", Clinic of Rheumatology, Sofia, Bulgaria, ²Medical Faculty, Medical University, University Hospital "St. Iv. Rilski", Clinic of Nephrology, Sofia, Bulgaria, ³Medical University, Faculty of Public Health, Sofia, Bulgaria
Background/Purpose: Studies on gout and its stages as a cardiovascular (CV) risk factor are few and with contradictory results. We compared echocardiographic parameters, known as…

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