Temporal trends in the prevalence and characteristics of hypouricaemia: a descriptive study of medical check-up and administrative claims data

We aimed to describe temporal trends in the prevalence and characteristics of hypouricaemia. We analysed medical check-up and administrative claims data to calculate hypouricaemia prevalence from 2009 to 2019. Then, using data from 2018 to 2019, we compared the characteristics of individuals with an...

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Published in:Clinical rheumatology 2022-07, Vol.41 (7), p.2113-2119
Main Authors: Koto, Ruriko, Sato, Izumi, Kuwabara, Masanari, Seki, Tomotsugu, Kawakami, Koji
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brief Report
Child
Dyslipidemia
Female
Humans
Hypertension - epidemiology
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Metabolic disorders
Movement disorders
Neurodegenerative diseases
Parkinson Disease
Parkinson's disease
Prevalence
Purine-Pyrimidine Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Rheumatology
Trends
Uric Acid
Urinary Calculi
Womens health
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Summary:We aimed to describe temporal trends in the prevalence and characteristics of hypouricaemia. We analysed medical check-up and administrative claims data to calculate hypouricaemia prevalence from 2009 to 2019. Then, using data from 2018 to 2019, we compared the characteristics of individuals with and without hypouricaemia. We also compared the characteristics of those with lower (serum uric acid [sUA] ≤ 1.0 mg/dL) and higher (1.0 mg/dL 
ISSN:0770-3198
1434-9949
DOI:10.1007/s10067-022-06071-9