| アブストラクト | OBJECTIVE: While gout is associated with cardiovascular (CV)-metabolic comorbidities and their sequelae, the antioxidant effects of uric acid may have neuroprotective benefits. We evaluated the potential impact of incident gout on the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a general population context. METHODS: We conducted an age-matched, sex-matched, entry-time-matched and body mass index (BMI)-matched cohort study using data from The Health Improvement Network, an electronic medical record database representative of the UK general population, from 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2013. Up to five non-gout individuals were matched to each case of incident gout by age, sex, year of enrolment and BMI. We compared incidence rates of AD between the gout and comparison cohorts, excluding individuals with prevalent gout or dementia at baseline. Multivariate hazard ratios (HRs) were calculated, while adjusting for smoking, alcohol use, physician visits, social deprivation index, comorbidities and medication use. We repeated the same analysis among patients with incident osteoarthritis (OA) as a negative control exposure. RESULTS: We identified 309 new cases of AD among 59 224 patients with gout (29% female, mean age 65 years) and 1942 cases among 238 805 in the comparison cohort over a 5-year median follow up (1.0 vs 1.5 per 1000 person-years, respectively). Univariate (age-matched, sex-matched, entry-time-matched and BMI-matched) and multivariate HRs for AD among patients with gout were 0.71 (95% CI 0.62 to 0.80) and 0.76 (95% CI 0.66 to 0.87), respectively. The inverse association persisted among subgroups stratified by sex, age group (<75 and >/=75 years), social deprivation index and history of CV disease. The association between incident OA and the risk of incident AD was null. CONCLUSIONS: These findings provide the first general population-based evidence that gout is inversely associated with the risk of developing AD, supporting the purported potential neuroprotective role of uric acid. |
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| ジャーナル名 | Annals of the rheumatic diseases |
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| Pubmed追加日 | 2015/3/6 |
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| 投稿者 | Lu, Na; Dubreuil, Maureen; Zhang, Yuqing; Neogi, Tuhina; Rai, Sharan K; Ascherio, Alberto; Hernan, Miguel A; Choi, Hyon K |
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| 組織名 | Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston,;Massachusetts, USA Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology,;Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts,;USA.;Massachusetts, USA Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Boston;University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.;Massachusetts, USA.;Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,;British Columbia, Canada.;Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston,;Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital,;Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. |
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| Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25739830/ |
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