Demographic and clinical features of gout patients in Turkey: A multicenter study

Rheumatology International

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 847-852

  Öztürk, Mehmet Akif ^a   Kaya, Arif ^a   Şenel, Soner ^b   Dönmez, Salim ^b   Balkarli, Ayşe ^c   Çobankara, Veli ^c   Erhan, Çiǧdem ^d   Sayarlioǧlu, Mehmet ^d   Ugan, Yunus ^e   Tunç, Ş Ercan ^e   Pehlivan, Yavuz ^f   Kisacik, Bünyamin ^f   Tufan, Abdurrahman ^a   Onat, Ahmet Mesut ^f   Tezcan, Engin ^a   Çetin, Gözde Yildirim ^d   Pamuk, Omer Nuri ^b  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Turkey)

^b Faculty of Veterinary Medicine   (Turkey)

^c Department of Internal Medicine   (Turkey)

^d Department of Chest Diseases Faculty of Medicine Kahramanmaras Sutcu ImamUniversity   (Turkey)

^e Faculty of Medicine   (Turkey)

^f Gaziantep Faculty of Medicine   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Gout; Precipitating factor

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; GOUT; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); AGE; AGED; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GOUT; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; TURKEY;

EID: 84886616797     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: 1437160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-012-2442-0     Document Type: Article

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