Clinical aspects of gouty patients in Taiwan.

The mean age of the onset of gout in Taiwan is 49.6 years old. This is very similar to Japan. The female cases made up 5.78% of total cases. This is very similar to the world average of about 5%. As far as laboratory findings are concerned, uric acid had a significant correlation with BUN, creatinine, cholesterol and triglyceride. In our occupation study we found that gout occurs in almost every class of society and no particular group has any immunity.