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Atherogenic Risk Factors in Patients with Gout

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Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism in Man IX

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 431))

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In recent years, atherosclerotic diseases such as ischemic heart disease have become an important cause of death in Japanese patients with gout.1 However, since it remained undetermined whether or not hyperuricemia per se is an independent risk factor for atherosclerosis, we investigated the possible risk factors for atherosclerosis including serum lipids in patients with gout.

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  1. Third Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya, Hyogo 663, Japan

    Zenta Tsutsumi, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Sumio Takahashi, Yuji Moriwaki, Jun-ichi Yamakita, Yumiko Nasako & Kazuya Higashino

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  1. Emperor Franz Joseph Hospital, Vienna, Austria

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Tsutsumi, Z. et al. (1998). Atherogenic Risk Factors in Patients with Gout. In: Griesmacher, A., Müller, M.M., Chiba, P. (eds) Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism in Man IX. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 431. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5381-6_13

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