Update on gout: new therapeutic strategies and options

R Terkeltaub - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2010 - nature.com
Gout, a disease recognized since antiquity, has increased in prevalence in recent years and
the clinical profile of this disease has become increasingly complex, owing to large numbers …

The genetics of hyperuricaemia and gout

AM Reginato, DB Mount, I Yang, HK Choi - Nature Reviews …, 2012 - nature.com
Gout is a common and very painful inflammatory arthritis caused by hyperuricaemia. This
Review provides an update on the genetics of hyperuricaemia and gout, including findings …

Association of three genetic loci with uric acid concentration and risk of gout: a genome-wide association study

A Dehghan, A Köttgen, Q Yang, SJ Hwang, WHL Kao… - The Lancet, 2008 - thelancet.com
Background Hyperuricaemia, a highly heritable trait, is a key risk factor for gout. We aimed to
identify novel genes associated with serum uric acid concentration and gout. Methods …

Epidemiology of gout: an update

EUR Smith, C Diaz-Torne, F Perez-Ruiz… - Best Practice & Research …, 2010 - Elsevier
Gout is the most common inflammatory joint disease in men, characterised by formation of
monosodium urate (MSU) crystals in the synovial fluid of joints and in other tissues. The …

Relationship of interleukin-1β blockade with incident gout and serum uric acid levels: exploratory analysis of a randomized controlled trial

DH Solomon, RJ Glynn, JG MacFadyen… - Annals of internal …, 2018 - acpjournals.org
Background: Although studies have shown that interleukin-1β (IL-1β) inhibitors can shorten
gout attacks, whether they can prevent gout attacks is unclear. Objective: To examine the …

Prevalence and correlates of gout in a large cohort of patients with chronic kidney disease: the German Chronic Kidney Disease (GCKD) study

J Jing, JT Kielstein, UT Schultheiss… - Nephrology Dialysis …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background Reduced kidney function is a risk factor for hyperuricaemia and gout, but limited
information on the burden of gout is available from studies of patients with chronic kidney …

Common dysfunctional variants in ABCG2 are a major cause of early-onset gout

H Matsuo, K Ichida, T Takada, A Nakayama… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Gout is a common disease which mostly occurs after middle age, but more people
nowadays develop it before the age of thirty. We investigated whether common dysfunction …

[HTML][HTML] A revised estimate of the burden of illness of gout

A Wertheimer, R Morlock, MA Becker - Current Therapeutic Research, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Gout is a chronic, inflammatory arthritis characterized by painful and debilitating
acute/episodic flares. Until recently, gout has been regarded as a minor medical problem, in …

Chronic gout: epidemiology, disease progression, treatment and disease burden

RA Brook, A Forsythe, JE Smeeding… - … medical research and …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Gout is a painful and disabling inflammatory arthritis of increasing prevalence
associated with hyperuricemia and the deposition of monosodium urate crystals in soft …

Effects of genistein, apigenin, quercetin, rutin and astilbin on serum uric acid levels and xanthine oxidase activities in normal and hyperuricemic mice

J Huang, S Wang, M Zhu, J Chen, X Zhu - Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2011 - Elsevier
Flavonoids are widely found in plants and many of them possess biological and
pharmacological activities. In the present study, we assessed the effects of the flavonoids …