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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...
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Alternative medicine are whole medical systems that did not fit with conventional medicine as they have completely different philosophies and ideas on the causes of disease, methods of diagnosis and...
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Canakinumab gets EU approval for treatment of gout
A new treatment called canakinumab (brand name Ilaris) has been granted EU marketing approval in patients with acute gout attacks that do not respond to other existing therapies.Canakinumab is an inje...
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...
While rheumatologists and primary care physicians (PCPs) in the USA recognize the importance of tight uric acid control as a strategy to minimize gout flares, the majority of gout patients have serum...
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
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...
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Pegloticase: in treatment-refractory chronic gout.
Intravenous pegloticase offers a novel approach to treating chronic gout refractory to conventional therapy. Pegloticase is a recombinant polyethylene glycol-conjugated form of uricase (a uric acid-sp...
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...
African American patients with gout: Efficacy and safety of febuxostat vs allopurinol.
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: African Americans are twice as likely as Caucasians to develop gout, but they are less likely to be treated with urate-lowering therapy (ULT). Furthermore, African Americans typ...
Role of Ultrasound and Other Advanced Imaging in the Diagnosis and Management of Gout.
Imaging of gout with conventional radiography has been described since shortly after roentgenography was invented. Ultrasound (US) detects more erosions than conventional radiography in rheumatoid art...
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...
