Sho Fukui, Masato Okada, Tomohiro Shinozaki, Takahiro Asano, Takehiro Nakai, Hiromichi Tamaki, Mitsumasa Kishimoto, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Takeaki Matsuda, Javier Marrugo, Sara K Tedeschi, Hyon Choi, Daniel H Solomon
INTRODUCTION: Despite the established cross-sectional association between alcohol intake and serum urate (SU), its longitudinal association remains unknown. This study aimed to determine whether changes in alcohol intake have a clinically relevant association with SU change. METHOD: We conducted retrospective analyses using systematically collected annual medical examination data from October 2012 to October 2022 in a Japanese preventive medicine centre. The exposure was changes in alcohol intake between two consecutive visits...
February 28, 2024: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases