Monitoring gout attacks over a 1-year period in 724 patients with gout has confirmed hospitalization (of which there were 35 occurrences) as a risk factor for flares. The investigators compared potential risk factors in the 2-day periods preceding attacks with those from noncritical timeperiods and found that risk increased 4-fold with hospitalization (OR 4.05; 95% CI 1.78–9.19).
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Attacks of gout more frequent in hospitalized patients. Nat Rev Rheumatol 9, 636 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrrheum.2013.155
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nrrheum.2013.155
