Gout in the Hmong in the United States

Journal of Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 262-266

  Wahedduddin, Salman ^a   Singh, Jasvinder A ^a,b   Culhane Pera, Kathleen A ^c   Gertner, Elie ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c West Side Community Health Services   (United States)

^d REGIONS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROBENECID; URIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GOUT; HAND; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TOPHACEOUS GOUT; UNITED STATES; URIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; ALLOPURINOL; ASIAN AMERICANS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GOUT; GOUT SUPPRESSANTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956438377     PISSN: 10761608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RHU.0b013e3181eeb487     Document Type: Article

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