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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Rheumatol. 2012 Jun 1;39(7):1458–1464. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.111533

Table 2.

Myocardial infarction (MI) and death rates, and most recent C-reactive protein (CRP) levels in patients with gout taking or not taking colchicine (n = 1288).

Outcome Colchicine,
n = 576
No Colchicine,
n = 712
p Relative Risk
MI, % 1.2 2.6 0.03 0.46
Death, % 3.9 5.1 0.18 0.76
CRP, mean ± SD mg/dl 2.5 ± 4.6 3.4 ± 5.6 0.24