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Crude number of events in each of the allopurinol subgroups
| No allopurinol (n=1593) | Recent low dose allopurinol (n=72) | Long standing low dose allopurinol (n=48) | Long standing high dose allopurinol (n=47) | |
| Mortality | 860 | 39 | 41 | 31 |
| CV mortality | 507 | 26 | 29 | 26 |
| CV hospitalisations | 488 | 34 | 27 | 17 |
| CV mortality or hospitalisations | 884 | 52 | 39 | 27 |
These data do not take into account the time to each event, which is taken into account in all other analyses. CV, cardiovascular.
