The Prevalence of Gout in Three English Towns

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Gardner M J [MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton], Power C, Barker D J P and Padday R. The prevalence of gout in three English towns. International Journal of Epidemiology 1982, 11: 71–75. The prevalence of gout has been measured in three English towns by means of a postal questionnaire. The three towns were selected to give a range of socio-economic conditions. In each town questionnaires were sent to a sample of approximately 5000 men aged 45 to 74 years. The questionnaire elicted a history of gout and a history of an attack of severe pain in the great toe. There was a progressive increase in prevalence of gout from Ipswich, the town with the most favourable socio-economic status, through Wakefield to Preston, the town with the least favourable socio-economic status. Within each town there was no difference between the social class distribution of cases and age-matched controls.

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