Mortality analyses by gout and heart failure status in the Framingham Offspring Study using Poisson regressions (n=4989)
| Number of observations in the model | RR for death (95% CI) | |
| Unadjusted estimates | ||
| Heart failure vs no heart failure | 32 267 | 5.28 (4.89 to 5.69) |
| Gout vs no gout | 32 267 | 1.74 (1.57 to 1.93) |
| Gout vs no gout among those without heart failure | 30 774 | 1.55 (1.34 to 1.76) |
| Gout vs no gout among those with heart failure | 1493 | 1.24 (1.02 to 1.51) |
| Adjusted estimates* | ||
| Heart failure vs no heart failure | 27 209 | 3.73 (3.39 to 4.10) |
| Gout vs no gout | 27 209 | 1.58 (1.40 to 1.78) |
| Gout vs no gout among those without heart failure | 26 073 | 1.50 (1.30 to 1.73) |
| Gout vs no gout among those with heart failure | 1136 | 1.37 (1.10 to 1.74) |
↵* Adjusted for age, body mass index and total cholesterol/high-density lipoprotein ratio as continuous variables and hypertension, body mass index, renal dysfunction, diabetes, alcohol use and smoking as categorical variables.