Rational treatment of gout
- 1 February 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Postgraduate Medicine
- Vol. 91 (2) , 115-127
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00325481.1992.11701199
Abstract
“Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth; or the gout will seize you and plague you both.” This advice from Benjamin Franklin indicates that gout is a very old disease with a colorful past. Treatments in Franklin's time were often worse than the disease itself, but today gout is very treatable. In this article, Drs Vawter and Antonelli discuss diagnosis and management of acute gouty arthritis and its underlying biochemical prerequisite, hyperuricemia.Keywords
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