Table 5 (Supplementary): Number of allopurinol users (% of group) with a suboptimal MPR (< 0.80) including patients with allopurinol use of ≤90 days (total number of allopurinol users: 814).

na / %
Age Group
25-34 / 7 / 64%
35-44 / 28 / 64%
45-54 / 53 / 39%
55-64 / 47 / 24%
65-74 / 63 / 26%
75 and over / 36 / 19%
Gender
Female / 44 / 29%
Male / 185 / 28%
Ethnicity
Māori / 152 / 38%
Non-Māori / 71 / 18%
Socioeconomic Deprivation
Least / 8 / 15%
Middle / 83 / 25%
Most / 125 / 34%
Residential Location
Rural / 69 / 34%
Urban / 141 / 26%
Overall / 234 / 29%

a Group counts may not total to the overall amount due to missing values.

Table 6 (Supplementary): Crude and adjusted odds ratios for suboptimal MPR (95% confidence intervals) for each demographic group including patients with allopurinol use of ≤90 days. Adjusted odds ratios are adjusted for all other demographic variables. Only patients with complete data were included (n=731).

Crude / Adjusted
OR / 95% / CI / p = / OR / 95% / CI / p =
Age Group
25-34 / reference / reference
35-44 / 1.00 / 0.24 / - / 4.11 / 1.000 / 0.88 / 0.21 / - / 3.81 / 0.868
45-54 / 0.38 / 0.10 / - / 1.43 / 0.153 / 0.35 / 0.09 / - / 1.39 / 0.137
55-64 / 0.21 / 0.06 / - / 0.76 / 0.018* / 0.18 / 0.05 / - / 0.71 / 0.014*
65-74 / 0.21 / 0.06 / - / 0.78 / 0.020* / 0.22 / 0.06 / - / 0.83 / 0.026*
75 and over / 0.16 / 0.04 / - / 0.58 / 0.006* / 0.18 / 0.05 / - / 0.73 / 0.016*
Gender
Female / reference / reference
Male / 0.95 / 0.63 / - / 1.43 / 0.810 / 0.88 / 0.56 / - / 1.37 / 0.566
Ethnicity
Māori / Reference / reference
Non-Māori / 0.34 / 0.24 / - / 0.48 / 0.000* / 0.42 / 0.28 / - / 0.62 / 0.000*
Socioeconomic Deprivation
Least / reference / reference
Middle / 1.71 / 0.77 / - / 3.78 / 0.188 / 1.34 / 0.59 / - / 3.03 / 0.482
Most / 2.83 / 1.29 / - / 6.18 / 0.009* / 1.66 / 0.73 / - / 3.79 / 0.226
Residential Location
Rural / reference / reference
Urban / 0.67 / 0.47 / - / 0.95 / 0.024* / 0.93 / 0.63 / - / 1.36 / 0.696

* Statistically significant at p < 0.05.

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