University Of Auckland

Starting urate lowering therapy during a gout flare does not impact the flare’s severity, duration or risk for recurrence over the following month, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.

CVD risk prediction tools developed for a primary care population in New Zealand were similarly useful risk predictors for adult cancer survivors, researchers reported.

The rheumatology community recently lost physician and educator Philip Robinson, MBChB, PhD, FRACP, associate professor in the faculty of medicine at the Royal Brisbane Clinical Unit at the University of Queensland, in Australia.

Compared with higher glycemic criteria for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes, lower criteria did not reduce risks for women giving birth to a large for gestational age infant or other infant or maternal complications.

A more intensive serum urate target is difficult to achieve with oral urate-lowering therapy, compared with a standard target of 0.3 mmol/L, and fails to improve bone erosion scores in patients with erosive gout, according to a study.

Compared with patients who continued home hemodialysis treatment, patients who experienced home hemodialysis failure correlated with a “significant” increase in mortality.

Although there are few studies on the subject outside of North America and Europe, the available data suggest that a minority of patients with gout receive treat-to-target care worldwide, according to data.

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.

Fecal microbiome transfer led to a mean reduction in android-to-gynoid fat ratio and a resolution of metabolic syndrome in a cohort of adolescents with obesity, according to randomized controlled trial data published in JAMA Network Open.