Original Investigations: Pathogenesis and Treatment of Kidney Disease and HypertensionThe association between gout and nephrolithiasis: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III, 1988-1994★
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Study population
We used data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). The NHANES III was designed to be a probability sample of the total civilian noninstitutionalized population aged 2 months or older in the United States and collected health and nutritional data on 33,994 men, women, and children from 1988 to 1994. Certain subgroups were oversampled, such as young children, older persons, non-Hispanic blacks, and Mexican Americans. Details of the survey design may be
Results
The age range in the population was 20 to 90 years, 52.4% were women, and 47.6% were men. The diagnosis of gout by a physician was reported by 3.8% of men and 1.6% of women (2.7% of the total population). Overall, 5.6% reported the previous passage of a kidney stone (6.9% of men, 4.3% of women), and 26.3% of these subjects had passed a kidney stone on two or more occasions. Characteristics of the US population by history of kidney stones are listed in Table 1.
Discussion
In this nationally representative sample of men and women, the frequency of kidney stone disease in subjects with gout was almost threefold greater than that in the general US population. After adjusting for potential confounders, including age, sex, and BMI, we found that a history of gout was associated with a 49% increase in risk for previous kidney stones. In 1967, Yu and Gutman8 reported a history of kidney stones in 22% of 1,258 patients with primary gout. This is approximately 50%
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Supported in part by grant no. DK59583 from the National Institute of Health (G.C.). H.M.K. is an American Kidney Fund Clinical Scientist in Nephrology Fellow.
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