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Original Source: Gout therapeutics: new drugs for an old disease.
The approval of febuxostat, a non-purine-analogue inhibitor of xanthine oxidase, by the European Medicines Agency and the US Food and Drug Administration heralds a new era in the treatment of gout. The use of modified uricases to rapidly reduce serum urate concentrations in patients with otherwise untreatable gout is progressing. Additionally, advances in our understanding of the transport of uric acid in the renal proximal tubule and the inflammatory response to monosodium urate crystals are translating in...
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According to the National Arthritis Data Workgroup, an estimated 6 million people in the United States report having experienced gout at some point in their lives. In fact, gout is the most common f...
"using living things to create products or to do tasks for humans" About Biotechnology - Biotech Biotechnology is the practice of using plants, animals and micro-organisms such as bacte...
Congenital conditions are those which are present from birth. They include structural deformities or loss of function in organs such as the heart, gut or skeletal system. They can be corrected by su...
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Gout: Why Is This Curable Disease So Seldom Cured?
Only a minority of patients with gout are actually cured. How can gout management be improved? Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
Uric acid as a danger signal in gout and its comorbidities
Uric acid not only triggers inflammation in gout in its crystallized form, monosodium urate, but is also associated with comorbidities of the disease. New insights into the role of uric acid as a dang...
Do Cherries Really Work in Gout?
Patients suffering from gout often eat cherries to prevent gout attacks. Is there any scientific basis for this? Medscape Rheumatology
Crystal arthritis: A new 'package of care' strategy for effective gout management
Gout is often poorly managed, with low rates of successful long-term urate lowering. A new 'package of care' intervention for treatment of patients with gout now offers ways to improve outcomes. The i...
Cherry intake reduces risk of gout attacks
A new study found that patients with gout who consumed cherries over a two-day period showed a 35% lower risk of gout attacks compared to those who did not eat the fruit.
Gout Management Is Focus of New Guidelines
TUESDAY, Oct. 2 -- Educating gout patients on diet, lifestyle choices and treatment objectives is among the recommendations in new guidelines to help patients and doctors fight the painful disease. Go...
Why is the incidence of gout increasing?
Gout has been described by the Daily Mail as something, “usually associated with port-swilling, over-fed elderly men of the 19th century”. (1) Recent research carried out at the Boston University...
Gout Guidelines From ACR Include New Drugs, Diet
American College of Rheumatology (ACR) gout guidelines are meant to improve management of hyperuricemia, reduce damaging chronic tophaceous gouty arthritis, and prevent acute gout attacks. Medscap...
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Cerebrovascular disease appears to have implications on rheumatic diseases, including gout. Accumulating evidence suggests that hemiparesis exerts a protective effect against gout via the down-regulat...
To identify association of IL18-607 C/A and -137 G/C polymorphism with susceptibility to gout in Chinese Han male population, We evaluate the genetic contribution of the IL18-607 C/A and -137 G/C poly...
Rheumatic diseases are manifested in all ages. First manifestations of gout are frequent between the ages of 40-60 years. Furthermore, the incidence of rheumatoid arthritis increases as well as anti-n...
Gender-specific risk factors for incident gout: a prospective cohort study.
Previous reports suggested that gout incidence increased with serum uric acid (sUA) level. In addition to sUA, we aimed to examine the gender-specific risk factors for incident gout. A prospective stu...
The diagnostic value of the proposal for clinical gout diagnosis (CGD).
The purpose of this study is to determine the diagnostic properties of the clinical gout diagnosis (CGD) proposal in patients with gout and other rheumatic diseases. We investigated the presence of cu...
