Gout, commonly known as "rich man's disease", is a rheumatic disease caused by reduced uric acid excretion or increased uric acid. It can easily lead to repeated inflammation of the body, especially joints, and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. A domestic copy The results of a large-scale study show that gout patients have a 23% higher risk of myocardial infarction than the general population, and younger gout patients are more likely to have myocardial infarction. High-fat diet is one of the causes of hyperuricemia and gout. It is recommended to reduce the intake on weekdays. (Photography/Luo Huiwen)
Luo Shufen, an attending physician at the Department of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, who led the study, tracked and analyzed the National Health Insurance database from 2000 to the end of 2008. There were 704,503 infringements of people over 20 years old and Personal data, including gout patients accounted for 26,556. Preliminary results show that people with gout have a myocardial infarction rate of 2.2 per 1,000 person-years, which is 3.67 times higher than the 0.6 rate among people without gout.
After multivariate analysis and adjustment for age, gender, diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke and end-stage renal disease, it was found that patients with gout are 23% more likely to have acute myocardial infarction than the general population. %; non-fatal myocardial infarction is 26% higher.
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In addition, this study conducted a secondary analysis of different age groups and found that gout has a trend of getting younger, and once young people suffer from gout, the risk of myocardial infarction is Risks will also increase. Data show that the risk of myocardial infarction for gout patients over 70 years old is 1.11 times that of those without gout; for gout patients aged 45 to 69, the risk is 1.24 times that of those without gout; and for gout patients aged 20 to 44, the risk is even higher. is 1.59 times.