Gout News

• Cardio-Rheumatology Clinics Guide Care for Unique Population Cardio-rheumatology programs are "the newest child" in a series of cardiology offshoots. Such clinics aim to prevent and manage complex cardiovascular conditions in rheumatology patients.
  MDedge News, January 23, 2023
• Phil Robinson: Rheumatologist, Colleague, Huntsman Spider Rescuer Philip ("Phil") Robinson, rheumatologist and associate professor at the University of Queensland and leader of global effort to understand COVID-19 among patients with rheumatic conditions, died on January 3 after a brief illness.
  Medscape Medical News, January 18, 2023
• Metabolic Syndrome May Promote Gout in Young Men Population-based studies suggest that managing metabolic syndrome may help to prevent gout in younger adults.
  MDedge News, December 15, 2022
• ACR 2022 Intensive Gout Treatment Meets Urate Goal, Lowers Tophi Burden The second randomized trial of therapy to intensively lower urate for patients with gout showed benefits in meeting serum urate goal, tophus size, and decreasing ultrasound sign.
  Medscape Medical News, November 18, 2022
• ACR 2022 Prednisone, Colchicine Equally Efficacious for CPP Arthritis In an open-label, randomized trial, 1 in 5 patients on colchicine had diarrhea, tipping the safety scales in favor of prednisone.
  MDedge News, November 16, 2022
• Gout Too Often Treated Only in Emergency Department A study based on patients seen at an academic medical center reinforces the need for greater attention to gout during primary care visits.
  MDedge News, November 04, 2022
• Gout in Women Tied to Comorbidities More Than Genetics Research suggests a link between cardiometabolic comorbidities and obesity and gout in women, with genetic traits seen playing a lesser role.
  MDedge News, November 01, 2022
• Poor Control of Urate Linked to CV Risk in Patients With Gout A new study of medical records adds to the evidence linking gout, particularly in patients with poorly controlled serum urate level, to cardiovascular risk.
  MDedge News, November 01, 2022
• Hospitalists Can Get Help for Rheumatology Cases Access to rheumatologist consults in the hospital is harder to come by, but alternative sources of support may be available.
  Medscape Medical News, October 26, 2022
• Worse COVID Outcomes Seen With Gout, Particularly in Women People with gout, especially women, may be at higher risk for poor COVID-19 outcomes, including hospitalization and death, researchers report.
  Medscape Medical News, October 24, 2022
• Could Vitamin C Help Reduce Gout? Lifestyle interventions are seen as particularly relevant to a disease like gout.
  WebMD Health News, October 06, 2022
• Sex Differences Seen in Inflammatory Arthritis Healthcare Use Women’s higher risk of conditions such as osteoarthritis and pain and fatigue may help to explain why overall healthcare resource use was higher in female patients with inflammatory arthritis.
  Medscape Medical News, September 30, 2022
• ESC 2022 ALL-HEART: No Benefit of Allopurinol in Ischemic Heart Disease Allopurinol failed to affect a composite of nonfatal MI, nonfatal stroke, or CV death, in a randomized trial that was 'definitively neutral' in patients with heart disease but no gout.
  Medscape Medical News, August 28, 2022
• Low Urate Limits for Gout Questioned in Study Low urate levels appear less risky when body composition is figured into the statistical analysis.
  Medscape Medical News, August 18, 2022
• Black Americans' High Gout Rate Stems From Social Causes Primary care providers need to address disparities through more comprehensive care and referrals to rheumatologists.
  Medscape Medical News, August 16, 2022
• Ultrasound Helps Predict Gout Flares Over the Next Year Ultrasound findings of urate deposits and inflammation may predict gout flares over the next year, researchers in Italy and the UK report.
  Medscape Medical News, August 16, 2022
• Gout Flares Linked to Transient Jump in MI, Stroke Risk Causation is plausible, even suspected, say experts who urge aggressive CV risk-factor management in gout patients and perhaps more willingness to prescribe them a particular anti-inflammatory.
  Medscape Medical News, August 02, 2022
• Benzbromarone Tops Febuxostat for Gout? In countries where available, low-dose benzbromarone may warrant stronger consideration in gout with renal uric acid underexcretion, researchers say.
  Medscape Medical News, July 13, 2022
• Alcohol Consumption Habits Can Predict Gout Tophi Drinking frequently, drinking for at least 10 years, and drinking spirits were significantly associated with tophi development, a study finds.
  Medscape Medical News, June 27, 2022
• EULAR 2022 Methotrexate Enhances Pegloticase Response in Uncontrolled Gout Greater efficacy and fewer infusion reactions were seen with methotrexate-pegloticase combination than pegloticase alone in the placebo-controlled MIRROR trial.
  Medscape Medical News, June 07, 2022