Erratum to: Intern Emerg Med (2012) 7:33–39 DOI 10.1007/s11739-011-0515-9

In the original publication, the number of patients reported in the Methods section, headers of Tables 2 and 3 were incorrectly stated. The correct versions of Tables 2 and 3 are given below.

Table 2 Tertiles of uric acid in the study population
Table 3 UA analysis on the basis of sex specific tertiles