A Survey of Rheumatism in a Rural New Zealand Maori Community

Gout is on the increase in New Zealand

“…In one survey 6 the whole tribe and in another 11 all Maori men working in a factory were recruited. Only one of our 31 subjects with gout, a Maori woman, did not meet the criteria used by Lennane et al 12 and Rose and Prior,6 8 9 and two subjects, the same Maori woman and a Maori man did not fulfil the Brauer and Prior10 criteria. Even if both these individuals were excluded for the purposes of comparison, the prevalence of gout in our Maori subjects would only drop to 21/342 (6.1%) instead of 6.4%—Maori men 17/130 (13.1%) instead of 13.9% and Maori women 3/212 (1.4%) instead of 1.9%.…”

Serum urate concentrations in the Australian aboriginal.

“…These have included the Maoris of New Zealand (Rose and Prior, 1963), Filipinos in Hawaii and Alaska (Decker, Lane, and Reynolds, 1962;Healey, Caner, and Decker, 1966a), the Chamorros and Carolinians of the Mariana Islands (Burch, O'Brien, Need, and Kurland, 1966), and occasionally some groups of Chinese (Tsung-Po, 1964) or Malaysians (Burns-Cox, 1964). Other Pacific peoples, such as full-blood Hawaiians and national groups of Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, and Caucasians living in Hawaii (Healey and others, 1966a;Healey, Caner, Bassett, and Decker, 1966b), as well as the North American Indians (O'Brien, Burch, and Bunim, 1966), have been shown to have serum urate levels comparable with very large groups of Caucasians in the United States of America.…”

Synthetic d(-)penicillamine in rheumatoid arthritis. Double-blind controlled study of a high and low regimen

“…the increasing sophistication of way of life (Popert and Hewitt, 1962;Rose and Prior, 1963). A further step will be to study the relationship between SUA concentrations and common disease processes, which also have a changing prevalence.…”