OBJECTIVES: To systematically review and quantitatively synthesize the effect of vitamin D
therapy on fall prevention in older adults. DESIGN: Systematic review and meta‐analysis. …

Objective To quantify the role of diuretic use in gout development in an adult population with
hypertension. Methods The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, a prospective …

Some observational studies have identified elevated uric acid concentration as a risk factor
for diabetes, while others have found an inverse relationship. We examined both the …

Objective. Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) may occur in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
(SLE). We sought to determine whether the presence of SS in a large cohort of patients …

J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2012; 14:675–679. ©2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The authors
quantified the impact of hypertension on gout incidence in middle‐aged white and African …

Background Increased serum urate levels are associated with poor outcomes including but
not limited to gout. It is unclear whether serum urate levels are the sole predictor of incident …

Background Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) is a new diagnostic tool for gout,
but its sensitivity has not been established. Our goal was to assess the sensitivity of DECT for …

Objective. Gout is often defined by self-report in epidemiologic studies. Yet the validity of self-reported
gout is uncertain. We evaluated the reliability and sensitivity of the self-report of …

… Maynard’s work was supported by a research grant from the National Center for Research
Resources (1KL2-RR-025006-01). Dr. Gelber’s work was supported by the Donald B. …

… and 6); and (f) is enhanced by water stress-related changes in turgor (JW Maynard and WJ
Lucas, unpublished results). Finally, it has been shown that the exogenous sucrose acquired …