Gout Medications

When Your Kidneys Fail, Your Gout Treatment Does Too: What’s Finally Changing

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The Double Trap: Gout and Kidney Disease Your kidneys filter uric acid out of your blood. When they work well, they keep things balanced. When they don’t, uric acid builds up, crystals form in your joints, and a gout attack hits you like a freight train. That’s the basics of the gout-kidney connection, and it’s … Read more

Your Gout Crystals Aren’t Just in Your Joints. They’re in Your Arteries.

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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.

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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