Gout

Black adults showed a higher prevalence for gout than white adults during a 10-year period, even after adjusting for diet, social determinants of health and chronic kidney disease, according to data published in JAMA Network.

In the United States, gout is more prevalent among Black adults than white adults, as well as among men compared with women, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

ORLANDO — Understanding the nature and role of the synovium and synovial fluid is critical to managing various types of arthritis, according to a presenter at the 2022 Rheumatology Nurses Society Annual Conference.

Allena Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced its ALLN-346 Phase 2a Study 202 examining ALLN-346 treatment in patients with gout and advanced chronic kidney disease has completed enrollment for cohorts A and B.

Patients with gout are more likely to experience a cardiovascular event following a flare, according to data published in JAMA.

Both excessive and long-term alcohol consumption, as well as any spirit consumption, predict the development of ultrasound-detected tophi and sub-tophi in patients with gout, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

When an individual has an excess of uric acid in the blood, it can crystallize in the joints and cause gout, the most common form of inflammatory arthritis in the United States.

Despite recently updated guidelines, urate-lowering therapy use, and the achievement of urate targets, remain low for patients with gout in the United Kingdom, according to data published in Lancet Europe.

Among kidney transplant recipients with uncontrolled gout, pegloticase showed sustained decreased serum urate levels, according to findings presented at the American Transplant Congress.

Among the many unanswered questions about calcium pyrophosphate deposition — formerly called “pseudogout” — perhaps the most important is whether it causes osteoarthritis, a speaker said at the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology East.