Primary gout in Shantou：a clinical and epidemiological study

• Published in: Chinese medical journal Vol. 116; no. 1; pp. 66 - 69
• Main Author: 曾庆馀 王庆文 陈韧 肖征宇 黄少弼 许敬才
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: China Department of Rheumatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou University Medical College, Shantou, Guangdong 515031, China%Department of Medicine, Chenghai Municipal Hospital, Chenghai , China 2003
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; China - epidemiology; Female; Gout - complications; Gout - diagnostic imaging; Gout - epidemiology; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Radiography; 临床特征; 临床病理; 原发性痛风; 汕头市; 流行病学; epidemiology; primary gout
• ISSN: 0366-6999; 2542-5641

Objective To evaluate the prevalence of primary gout in the Shantou area,China,and to understand its clinical features.Methods Samples from three surveys of the Chenghai across ten years were studied.Clinical,laboratory and radiology data of 419 cases of primary gout were collected and analyzed.Results Prevalence of primary gout in the three surveys were 0.17?0.15?and 0.26?respectively. Among the clinical patients,the ratio of male to female was 21:1;the average age of onset of women was significantly higher than that of men.The number of cases in the last ten years has been increasing.In the first wave of cases,the first metatarsophalangeal joint was involved in 82.1?of all cases;no fourth metatarsophalangeal joint involvement had been observed.Hyperlipemia was the most common accompanying abnormal laboratory test(57.1?.Radiographic bhone erosion was found in 49.4?patients,most of them with disease duration morte than 5 years.Conclusions The prevalence of primary gout in Shantou area has been increasing in the last ten years.Changes in diet and lifestyle may be responsible for this rapid increase.