… Treatment of Acute Gouty Arthritis Three treatments are available for patients with acute gouty
arthritis. Colchicine is less favored now than in the past, because its onset of action is slow …

… and components of the metabolic syndrome have focused on the risk of incident gout in
people with individual co-morbid conditions, gout itself has been shown to be a risk factor for …

… After 11 years of follow-up of 531 Maori who did not have gout at baseline, 26 men and 12
women developed gout, giving an 11-year cumulative incidence of 10.3% in men and 4.3% in …

… Data from several countries suggest that gout is becoming more prevalent (Table 2). In the
… having gout within the preceding year. The 1-year period prevalence of self-reported gout …

… Demographic data, body mass index (BMI) at the time of first diagnosis of gout, clinical …
rates for both primary gout and gout occurring in patients taking diuretics, secondary gout, were …

… epidemiology of gout are reviewed in this article. The review describes clinical characteristics
and case definitions of gout, including the Rome and New York diagnosis criteria of gout, ‘…

… After a long period with little clinical or research attention to gout, there has been a … gout
and hyperuricaemia and set the scene for the following two papers that address aspects of gout …

… of gout onset, increased tophi, less frequent acute attacks of gout, a greater frequency of
obesity and familial gout, … a lower age of gout onset, more familial gout and proportionally more …

… Gout is a systemic … in gout, many people with hyperuricemia do not develop gout or even
form UA crystals. In fact, only 5% of people with hyperuriceamia above 9 mg/dL develop gout. …

… gout usually develops after years of acute intermittent gout, although tophi occasionally can
be part of the initial presentation. In addition to the morbidity that is attributable to gout itself, …