Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study population

Characteristic	Patients with gout (n = 109)	Control subjects (n = 102)	p value
Age, yr	55.0 ± 12.1	51.8 ± 6.7	0.018a
Height, cm	168.3 ± 6.4	169.4 ± 5.4	0.18
Weight, kg	69.9 ± 8.6	69.1 ± 8.7	0.54
Body mass index, kg/m2	24.6 ± 2.7	24.0 ± 2.7	0.12
Serum uric acid, mg/dL	5.8 ± 1.9	6.1 ± 1.2	0.17

Values are presented as mean ± SD.

^ap < 0.05.