Gout

Individuals who follow a diet of healthy plant foods demonstrate a lower risk for gout, while those with a greater intake of unhealthy plant foods had a higher risk, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

When initiating allopurinol for gout under a “start low, go slow” dosing strategy, flares in the first 6 months are most common in patients starting with 100 mg daily, or who flared in the month before beginning therapy, according to data.

Nearly half of patients with gout achieved remission with pegloticase treatment by 52 weeks, indicating longer-term benefits for intensive urate-lowering therapy, according to data presented at EULAR 2024 Congress.

A nurse-led gout care program nearly doubled the rate of patients achieving low plasma urate levels and resulted in greater continuance of urate-lowering therapy vs. general practice care, according to data published in RMD Open.