ippocrates would not be surprised to read that persons with gout had higher mortality, and particularly cardiovascular-related mortality, than persons without gout.1 On the other hand, he might well have been bemused, nearly 2500 years after he described the syndrome, that this made news.
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Michael H. Alderman (2007) studied this question.
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