Your Gout Crystals Aren’t Just in Your Joints. They’re in Your Arteries. Think about the last time gout hit you. That throbbing big toe, the swollen ankle, the knee that screamed at the slightest touch. You probably thought the problem was in your joint, right? What if I told you those same needle-sharp crystals are … Read more
Only 1 in 3 People With Gout Take Their Medication. Here’s Why That’s a Crisis. If you have high blood pressure, there’s a roughly 70% chance you take your pills every day. Diabetes? About 65%. Osteoporosis? Around 55%. Gout? Thirty-seven percent. That’s not a typo. According to data presented at the RheumNow Gout Campaign in … Read more
The Number Every Person With Gout Needs to Know Three. That’s the number. If you’re having more than three treated gout flares a year, your heart may be in danger for years to come. Not next decade. Not eventually. Right now, and for at least seven years. A new study published in Rheumatology in July … Read more
The Bacon-Gout Connection Nobody Told You About You already know alcohol and seafood can trigger gout. But what if the bacon on your breakfast plate, the ham in your sandwich, or the hot dogs at your weekend cookout were quietly raising your gout risk in a way that has nothing to do with purines? A … Read more
The Bacon-Gout Connection Nobody Told You About You already know alcohol and seafood can trigger gout. But what if the bacon on your breakfast plate, the ham in your sandwich, or the hot dogs at your weekend cookout were quietly raising your gout risk in a way that has nothing to do with purines? A … Read more
The Question Every Gout Doctor Hears Most “Doc, my uric acid is normal now. Can I stop the pills?” If you have gout and you are taking allopurinol or febuxostat, you have probably asked this. Maybe more than once. It is the single most common question rheumatologists hear, and until recently, they did not have … Read more