Increased the risk of heart failure and comorbidities in patients with gout treatment: a population-based cohort study

To investigate the association between gout treatment and heart failure (HF).Patients with gout between 2000 and 2010 constituted the gout cohort. The main outcome was a new diagnosis of HF. Multivariable Cox proportional hazard regression models were used to measure the effect of gout on the risk of developing HF. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to estimate the cumulative HF incidence curve for the gout and nongout cohorts.The cohort study...