Table Info

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of 98 patients indicated for benzbromarone

Patient characteristics	N (%)
Sex
-Male	8 (90%)
-Female	10 (10%)
Duration of symptoms prior to inclusion
-Years (SD)	8.2 (6.5)
Age
-Mean (SD)	70 (12)
Initial dose of benzbromarone
-50 mg QD	15 (15%)
-100 mg QD	81 (83%)
-200 mg QD	2 (2%)
Initial combination therapy
-With allopurinol	67 (68%)
-With febuxostat	3 (3%)
Initial sUA
-Mean (SD), mmol/L	0.45 (0.12)
Initial eGFR
-Mean (SD), mL/min	54 (18)

SD: standard deviation

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Declarations

Author contributions

IH: Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. MJ: Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing—review & editing. TLJ: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing—review & editing. All authors read and approved the submitted version.

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval

The institutional review board of VieCuri Medical Center (2021-009), Venlo, Netherlands approved the study.

Consent to participate

Due to the retrospective and observational approach of the study a waiver of informed consent was provided.

Consent to publication

Not applicable.

Availability of data and materials

Not applicable.

Funding

IH was supported by European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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