Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2011 Aug;63(8):1108–1114. doi: 10.1002/acr.20479

Table 2.

Age at gout onset according to body mass index (BMI), and obesity status, at baseline and age 21, in CLUE II cohort

Total Women Men
N Mean age in years (SD) N Mean age in years (SD) N Mean age in years (SD)
Baseline BMI
Not obese 271 60.2 (12.4) 83 62.5 (13.2) 188 59.2 (11.9)
Obese 121 57.1 (13.6) 45 61.6 (13.6) 76 54.5 (13.0)
Difference (95% CI) 3.1 (0.3, 5.8)* 0.9 (−4.0, 5.9) 4.7 (1.40, 8.0)*
BMI at age 21
Not obese 365 60.1 (12.5) 119 63.3 (12.8) 246 58.6 (12.1)
Obese 24 49.2 (10.5) 8 49.6 (12.2) 16 48.9 (8.7)
Difference (95% CI) 11.0 (5.8, 16.1)** 13.6 (4.4, 22.9)* 9.7 (3.6, 15.8)*
**

t-test P-value <0.001

*

t-test P-value < 0.01

SD is standard deviation. Obesity is defined as a body mass index greater than or equal to 30 kg/m2. CI is 95% confidence interval.