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Article: Study finds gout can kill.(CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE NEWSBRIEFS)
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- Health News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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Most people think of gout as a harmless but painful sign of excess, but the disease can kill, researchers have found. They studied the relationship between gout and cardiovascular disease in 51,297 men participating in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study over a 12-year period. As reported in Circulation, they discovered that men with gout had a higher risk of death from all causes than men without gout. The risk of death from cardiovascular disease and coronary artery disease was particularly higher, as was the risk of a nonfatal heart attack, even among men who had no coronary ...
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