Gout: Diagnosis and Management in Primary Care - Medscape
Dec 12, 2024 · Additionally, cardiovascular disease is the major cause of increased mortality in patients with gout.Cardiovascular risk assessment and mitigation of cardiovascular risk factors should also be a ...
Gout Increases the Risk for a Wide Range of CVDs - Medscape
Feb 27, 2024 · Overall, patients with gout were 58% more likely to develop any CVD than their matched comparators without gout. There was a higher disease incidence among patients with gout for each of the 12 ...
Treat Gout to Target Based on Uric Acid Level, Not Symptoms
Jun 18, 2024 · Basing the treatment of gout on reaching and maintaining target serum uric acid level is already endorsed in guidelines, but a randomized trial finally showed the advantage with controlled data.
Gout and the Antihypertensives - Page 3 - Medscape
Apr 12, 2012 · Dr. Choi: A number of variables affect serum uric acid levels and the risk of gout, including many lifestyle factors such as adiposity, represented by BMI; dietary factors, particularly alcohol ...
Black Americans' High Gout Rate Stems From Social Causes
Aug 16, 2022 · Black Americans' High Gout Rate Stems From Social Causes. Louise Gagnon. August 16, 2022 ...
Optimized Hospital Care Improves Gout Treatment Uptake
Apr 29, 2024 · "The number of new cases of gout dropped by about one third in the first year of the pandemic," Russell said. Incidence declined from 1.78 to 1.23 per 1000 adults.
Rapid Crystal Dissolution in Gout - Medscape
Gout is one of the most common inflammatory arthritis, affecting up to 1–2% of adult men in western countries. Although in most patients gout is an episodic disease that can be taken as benign ...
Another Benefit of Gout Treatment: CV Risk Reduction - Medscape
May 16, 2024 · Gout, Inflammation, and CVD. However, for rheumatologists to study the association between gout-related inflammation and CVD is "very, very hard," Pillinger added. "But I do think that the ...
Plant-Based Diet Improves Uric Acid Levels, Gout Symptoms
Nov 25, 2024 · A Mediterranean-inspired plant-based diet improved self-reported measures of gout as well as uric acid levels, a pilot study has found. There hasn’t been a lot of research on diet in gout ...
Sleep Apnea as a Cause of Gout Flares - Medscape
Jan 5, 2009 · The immune system's response to precipitation of monosodium urate (MSU) crystals from serum uric acid into a joint is well established as a cause of the severe pain and inflammation of gout. Sleep ...