Gout News

Twitter use revealed “early signals” of drug rationing and other critical behavior changes in patients with rheumatic diseases as they navigated the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data published in Rheumatology.

Combining pegloticase with immunomodulation therapy greatly improves pegloticase response rates in patients with uncontrolled gout, according to a systematic review published in Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism.

Arthritis and hypertension are the two most prevalent chronic conditions among U.S. veterans aged 25 years and older, according to data published by CDC researchers in National Health Statistics Report.

Although anakinra is not superior to triamcinolone in affecting gout pain intensity over 24 to 72 hours, it is comparable in pain reduction and even favored in most secondary outcomes, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

Contemporary films and television shows portray gout as a funny or embarrassing condition triggered by dietary indulgence, potentially reinforcing inaccurate beliefs about the disease, according to findings published in BMC Rheumatology.

Colchicine reduced hospitalization and mortality in patients with COVID-19 by more than 20%, according to topline results of the COLCORONA randomized trial.

Although the risk for severe COVID-19 outcomes in patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal disease has lowered, it is nonetheless still significant, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension — or DASH — diet successfully reduces serum urate, particularly among those with hyperuricemia, according to data published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

Avoiding obesity, alcohol consumption and diuretic use, while maintaining a DASH-style diet, may prevent most incident gout cases among men, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

There were approximately 1.3 billion cases of musculoskeletal disorders worldwide in 2017, leading to 121,300 deaths and 138.7 million disability adjusted life years, according to findings published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.