Time of Diagnosis and Medical Personnel Who Diagnosed the Patients

In terms of duration of disease, patients diagnosed >1 year before the survey (n=111, 52.1% and n=68, 31.9%, respectively) had similar proportions of uncontrolled and controlled gout to patients diagnosed with gout <1 year prior (P=0.632). The largest proportion of patients was diagnosed with gout between the ages 25 and 60 years, with 100 (46.9%) and 63 (29.6%) having uncontrolled and controlled gout, respectively, followed by the 15- to 25-year age group (n=24, 11.3% and n=16, 7.5%, respectively) (P=0.043). Family physicians were the providers who most frequently diagnosed gout in this sample (n=39, 18.3% and n=32, 15.0%, respectively, for uncontrolled and controlled gout), followed by rheumatologists (n=36, 16.9% for uncontrolled gout) and orthopedic surgeons (n=18, 8.5% for controlled gout) (P=0.027). Also, 29 (13.6%) and 49 (23.0%) patients with uncontrolled and controlled gout were currently experiencing gout attacks when they completed the survey (P=0.532) (Table 2).Table 2. Time of Diagnosis and the Medical Personnel Who Diagnosed the Patients