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Hyperuricemia Might Be An Early Manifestation Of Undiagnosed Adult Leukemia In A Population-Based Cohort Study, Shih-Wei Lai, Cheng-Li Lin, Kuan-Fu Liao
Hyperuricemia Might Be An Early Manifestation Of Undiagnosed Adult Leukemia In A Population-Based Cohort Study, Shih-Wei Lai, Cheng-Li Lin, Kuan-Fu Liao
BioMedicine
Background/Objective. No published population-based study investigates the association between hyperuricemia and undiagnosed adult leukemia in Taiwan. The aim of the study was to investigate whether hyperuricemia might be an early manifestation of undiagnosed adult leukemia in Taiwan. Methods. A population-based cohort study was conducted to analyze the database of the Taiwan National Health Insurance Program. There were 47708 subjects aged 20 to 84 years with newly diagnosed hyperuricemia as the hyperuricemia group from 2000 to 2013, and 190832 randomly selected subjects without hyperuricemia as the non-hyperuricemia group. The hyperuricemia group and the non-hyperuricemia group were followed for one …