Released 06 October 2008

Gout 'increases type 2 diabetes risk'

A new study has suggested that men with gout are at a higher future risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Researchers from the Division of Rheumatology at Vancouver General Hospital, the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, the Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, Vancouver and the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Pittsburgh studied more that 11,000 men over a six-year period.

Their findings, published in the medical journal Rheumatology, reveal that there were 1,215 new cases of type 2 diabetes.

After adjusting for age, body mass index, smoking, family history of type 2 diabetes, alcohol intake and dietary factors, the risk of men with gout developing type 2 diabetes was significantly higher than those who did not have gout.

"These findings from men with a high cardiovascular risk profile suggest that men with gout are at a higher future risk of type 2 diabetes independent of other known risk factors," the researchers concluded.
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