Based on lack of therapeutic options for urate-lowering for patients with chronic gout refractory to conventional therapy, the economic burden of this small but substantial population contributes disproportionately to the overall economic burden of chronic gout. Recent availability of gout-specific ICD-9...
2017 [10]. In a study of elderly patients with gout in Spain, Orfila et al. 2006 showed that the difference in QoL between genders could be explained by the fact that women had more chronic conditions and more disability than men [32]. In addition to the patient perspective, the IP of...
(age, sex, area-level socioeconomic status, and residence in 1 of British Columbia’s 5 geographic health regions); time since first recorded diagnosis of diabetes; chronic comorbidities, diabetes complications (neuropathy, nephropathy, and retinopathy); risk factors for gout (chronic...
Gout could be defined by the respective ICD codes (ICD-9 code 274.x or ICD-10 code M10.x [12, 13]) or diagnosed by a physician in accordance with the evidence-based EULAR recommendations [1]. The patient-relevant outcomes considered were all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality (...
Significant changes in diet with dietary restrictions that contrast with diet for other chronic conditions (G) Three patient nominal groups listed this among their top concerns. Patients wanted to go on high protein diet for weight loss to help diabetes mellitus and heart conditions, or eat more ...
Cardiovascular risk factors other than diabetes (hypertension, hyperlipidemia), and other medical comorbidities, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and renal failure were assessed based on the presence of respective ICD-9-CM codes during the study period prior to occurrence of outcome...
It is also possible that acute gouty arthritis has a different impact on the risk of fall or fracture compared with patients with chronic gout. Our study has several limitations. First, even though our study tried to adjust for obesity, the diagnosis of obesity is likely underrecorded in the...
Methods: We analyzed the Minimal Basic Data Set from 192,062 Spanish hospitalizations with gout (ICD-9 coding) from 2005 to 2015. The comorbidities of interest were cerebrovascular diseases, venous thromboembolism, sepsis, chronic kidney disease, arrhythmia, dementia, liver disease, obstructive ...
The most frequently identified contributing comorbid conditions were alcohol-related disorder (ICD-9-CM: 291, 303, 305, 571.0, 571.1, 571.2, 571.3, 790.3, and V11.3), coronary artery disease (ICD-9-CM: 411–414), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD; ICD-9-CM: 490–496), diabetes...
The impact of gout on patients’ lives may not be as apparent to primary care physicians, where most time during outpatient visits is spent discussing and managing other chronic co-existent conditions (for example, heart disease, hypertension), with little time left to assess the impact of gout...