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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Rheumatol. 2019 Apr 15;71(6):991–999. doi: 10.1002/art.40807

Table 4.

Prevalence of Current Urate-Lowering Therapy (ULT) Use among Gout Patients in the US, NHANES 2013–2014*

Prevalence, % (95% CI) Gout Patients on urate-lowering therapy (in millions)
All 35.5 (25.9, 46.4) 3.28
Sex
    Female 15.5 (9.3, 24.7) 0.40
    Male 43.0 (31.5, 55.3) 2.86
Age
    20–39 42.9 (13.2, 78.9) 0.27
    40–59 33.1 (15.4, 57.3) 1.15
    60–79 37.3 (27.6, 48.2) 1.62
    ≥ 80 31.1 (13.8, 55.9) 0.26
Race/ethnicity
    Non-Hispanic White 35.0 (24.2, 47.6) 2.47
    Non-Hispanic Black 26.5 (17.6, 37.9) 0.32
    Hispanic 57.7 (38.7, 74.7) 0.35
    Other 43.4 (17.3, 73.8) 0.18
*

Data are presented incorporating sample weights and adjusted for clusters and strata of the complex sample design of NHANES 2013–2014.