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Acute gout attacks and occupation
J. Klarica
; Zdravstvena stanica, Primošten, Hrvatska
L. Krapac
; Institut za medicinska istraživanja i medicinu rada, Zagreb, Hrvatska
I. Jajić
; Klinika za ortopediju Medicinskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The appearance of acute gout attacks was followed in two groups of persons, one of 162 patients who were treated in a specialist rheumatology service clinic and another of 124 individuals who received treatment through a primary health care centre. The findings in the two groups differed. In the first group no connection between gout attacks and patients occupation could be established. In the second group the connection was evident. This is explained by the existence of a closer contact between the primary health care physician and his patients enabling the physician to perceive a relationship of which the specialist remains unaware seeing his patients less often, In gout patients the presence was established of acute as well as of provocative factors which are responsible for creating predilection sites for crystallization of uric acid as a result of mechanical injury.
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Hrčak ID:
153965
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Publication date:
23.12.1986.
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