Gout News

Healio Rheumatology is proud to announce the launch of Rheuminations, a podcast series hosted by Adam Brown, MD, focusing on medical mysteries and other ripping yarns of the immune system gone awry.

Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, has petitioned the FDA to remove the gout medication febuxostat due to what it calls “unique, serious — some fatal” cardiovascular risks, according to a press release.

AMSTERDAM — Gout is independently associated with an 17% to 20% increased risk for incident dementia among elderly patients, according to findings presented the EULAR Annual Congress.

The commercial HumaSensplus point-of-care meter, which provides immediate readings with capillary blood samples via fingertip puncture, was able to give uric acid measurements that were reasonably comparable to those collected through laboratory assay, according to findings published in Arthritis Research and Therapy.

Blacks and patients with hypertension have an increased risk for gout, but the associations cannot be fully explained by serum urate, according to findings published in Arthritis Research and Therapy.

CreakyJoints — an online, nonprofit community for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis and related conditions — has published a patient-centered guideline on the management and treatment of gout, according to a press release.

DESTIN, Fla. — All-cause hospitalization increased 410% among patients with gout during the last 22 years, nearly 100 times more than the overall population in the United States, according to findings presented during the 2018 Congress of Clinical Rheumatology.

Gout is not associated with an increased risk for bone fracture, and urate-lowering drugs had no effect on long-term fracture risk, according to findings published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

Eight common chronic diseases accounted for more than one-fifth of incident cancer risk, according to prospective study results.

Diuretics, such as loop agents and thiazides, do not have a significant effect on managing gout, according to findings published in Arthritis Research and Therapy.