tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Menopause, postmenopausal hormone use and serum uric acid levels in US women – The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Menopause, postmenopausal hormone use and serum uric acid levels in US women – The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. | Available online http content 10 5 R116 Research article Menopause postmenopausal hormone use and serum uric acid levels in US women - The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey A Elisabeth Hak1 and Hyon K Choi2 Departments of Immunology and Internal Medicine Erasmus MC University Medical Center Gravendijkwal 230 3015 CE Rotterdam The Netherlands 2Rheumatology Division Arthritis Research Centre of Canada Department of Medicine Vancouver General Hospital University of British Columbia 895 West 10th Avenue Vancouver BC V5Z 1L7 Canada Corresponding author Hyon K Choi hchoi@ Received 27 Jun 2008 Revisions requested 1 7 Jul 2008 Revisions received 13 Aug 2008 Accepted 26 Sep 2008 Published 26 Sep 2008 Arthritis Research Therapy 2008 10 R116 doi ar2519 This article is online at http content 10 5 R116 2008 Hak and Choi licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction Despite the substantial prevalence of gout in the ageing female population female hormonal influence has not been comprehensively examined. We evaluated and quantified the potential independent association between menopause postmenopausal hormone use and serum uric acid levels in a nationally representative sample of women. Methods Using data from 7662 women aged 20 years and older in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1988 to 1994 we examined the relation between menopause postmenopausal hormone use and serum uric acid levels. We used multivariate linear regression to adjust for other risk factors for hyperuricaemia such as dietary factors age adiposity alcohol use renal function hypertension and diuretic use. Results .