Relation of Temperature and Humidity to the Risk of Recurrent Gout Attacks

• Published in: American journal of epidemiology Vol. 180; no. 4; pp. 372 - 377
• Main Authors: Neogi, T., Chen, C., Niu, J., Chaisson, C., Hunter, D. J., Choi, H., Zhang, Y.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cary, NC Oxford University Press 15.08.2014; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Ambient temperature; Biological and medical sciences; Comparative analysis; Diseases of the osteoarticular system; Epidemiology; Female; General aspects; Gout - epidemiology; Gout - etiology; Health risk assessment; High temperature; Hot Temperature - adverse effects; Humans; Humidity; Humidity - adverse effects; Indoor environments; Inflammatory joint diseases; Logistic Models; Male; Medical sciences; Metabolic diseases; Middle Aged; Miscellaneous. Osteoarticular involvement in other diseases; ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS; Other metabolic disorders; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Purines and pyrimidines (gout, hyperuricemia...); Recurrence; Regression analysis; Relative humidity; Rheumatism; Risk Factors; Socioeconomic Factors; Temperature; United States - epidemiology; Young Adult; United States; United States > US; Relapse; Temperature; Gout; Diseases of the osteoarticular system; Metabolic diseases; Risk; Uric acid; Case control study; Recurrent; Microcristalline arthropathy; Epidemiology; Weather; Hyperuricemia; Risk factor; Humidity; World wide web; Case-crossover study; Purine; Internet; Microcrystal; Public health; case-crossover study; gout; temperature; weather; humidity; risk factor; internet

Gout attack risk may be affected by weather (e.g., because of volume depletion). We therefore examined the association of temperature and humidity with the risk of recurrent gout attacks by conducting an internet-based case-crossover study in the United States (in 2003-2010) among subjects with a di...