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Table 3 Number of patients and prevalence of gouty arthritis (patients with events during the period April 2016 to March 2017)

From: Prevalence of gout and asymptomatic hyperuricemia in the pediatric population: a cross-sectional study of a Japanese health insurance database

 

Total

Age

0–5 years

6–11 years

12–18 years

Number of patients with gouty arthritis

n

21

0

3

18

Prevalence of gouty arthritis, % (n/N)

 In patients with gout

43.8 (21/48)

0 (0/3)

42.9 (3/7)

47.4 (18/38)

 95% CI

29.5–58.8

0.0–70.8

9.9–81.6

31.0–64.2

 In patients with gout and asymptomatic hyperuricemia

7.6 (21/276)

0 (0/22)

7.0 (3/43)

8.5 (18/211)

 Within the database population

0.003 (21/696,277)

0 (0/220,749)

0.001 (3/219,509)

0.007 (18/256,019)

  1. CI Confidence interval