Beyond joint pain, could each gout flare lead to heart attack?

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Epidemiology Program; Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology; Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. hchoi@mgh.harvard.edu.
² Clinical Epidemiology Program; Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology; Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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Hyon K Choi et al. Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2022 Nov.

. 2022 Nov;18(11):619-620.

doi: 10.1038/s41584-022-00844-x.

¹ Clinical Epidemiology Program; Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology; Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. hchoi@mgh.harvard.edu.
² Clinical Epidemiology Program; Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology; Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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Association Between Gout Flare and Subsequent Cardiovascular Events Among Patients With Gout.
Cipolletta E, Tata LJ, Nakafero G, Avery AJ, Mamas MA, Abhishek A. Cipolletta E, et al. JAMA. 2022 Aug 2;328(5):440-450. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.11390. JAMA. 2022. PMID: 35916846 Free PMC article.

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