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SUBMITTER: Tsoi MF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7487938 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tsoi Man Fung MF Chung Man Ho MH Cheung Bernard Man Yung BMY Lau Chak Sing CS Cheung Tommy Tsang TT
Arthritis research & therapy 20200904 1
<h4>Objective</h4>To determine the incidence and prevalence of gout in the general population and the utilisation of urate-lowering therapy (ULT) among patients with gout in Hong Kong.<h4>Methods</h4>A total of 2,741,862 subjects who attended any outpatient clinics or accident and emergency department (with or without hospitalisation) in 2005 and did not die before 2006 were identified from the Clinical Data Analysis and Reporting System (CDARS) of the Hospital Authority in Hong Kong. All subjec ...[more]