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Gout and You: Your Diet, Your Life, Your Natural Options
By XANTHA LEATHAM HEALTH AND SCIENCE REPORTER FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 17:22 EST, 14 August 2022 | UPDATED: 17:22 EST, 14 August 2022
Continue reading “Binge-eating and lack of exercise during lockdown has triggered huge increase in gout, data suggests”By MATTHEW LODGE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 13:43 EST, 26 December 2022 | UPDATED: 11:22 EST, 31 December 2022
As the ‘disease of kings’, gout has long plagued the upper echelons of British society.
Continue reading “How ‘the disease of kings’ has returned: Why cases of gout are rising in Britain – are YOU at risk?”The Irish News 11, November, 2022
Cases of gout are on the rise, but the condition is misunderstood, and few patients get the treatment they need, writes Julie Cook
AS an active young man in his 20s, Harry Tyndall was both shocked and scared to wake up one morning with an intense shooting pain in his right foot.
“It was the worst pain ever – I thought I’d broken it. I couldn’t even walk, yet I had done nothing to injure it,” recalls Harry, who was then just 27.
A trip to A&E followed, where Harry was diagnosed with gout, a form of arthritis that causes sudden, severe joint pain and is often associated with elderly men paying the price for over-indulging in rich food and port.
Continue reading “Gout is on the rise – so why do so few patients get treatment they need?”It has been a popular belief that gout does not typically occur in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Our aim was to assess the occurrence, prevalence, clinical presentation and possible risk factors for gout in patients with RA.
We retrospectively reviewed a population-based incidence cohort of patients who fulfilled 1987 ACR criteria for RA between 1980 and 2007. The cumulative prevalence of gout in RA adjusted for the competing risk of death was estimated.
Background
Panagiota Drivelegka MD, PhD,Lennart T.H. Jacobsson MD,Ulf Lindström MD,Karin Bengtsson MD, PhD,Mats Dehlin MD
First published: 12 September 2022
https://doi.org/10.1002/acr.25018
To investigate the risk of first-time acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in a large cohort of primary and secondary care patients with incident gout, compared to the general population.
Continue reading “Gout Comes With Increased Heart Risk”Objectives: To evaluate whether ultrasound (US) findings indicating monosodium urate (MSU) deposits and US-detected inflammation [i.e. power Doppler (PD) signal] predict gout flares over 12 months.
Continue reading “Ultrasonography in the prediction of gout flares: a 12-month prospective observational study”As life gets more hectic, it is all too easy to go without sleep. In fact, many Americans only get 6 hours of sleep a night or less.
You need ample sleep to help restore your brain and body. Not getting enough sleep can be bad for your health in a number of ways.
Sleep gives your body and brain time to recover from the stresses of the day. After a good night’s sleep, you perform better and are better at making decisions. Sleep can help you feel more alert, optimistic, and get along with people better. Sleep also helps your body ward off disease.
Continue reading “Sleep and your health”All around the world, gout prevalence is growing at an alarming pace, while gout treatment remains as “horribly mismanaged” as ever.
This rapid growth has spurred on a worldwide “gout epidemic,” James O’Dell, MD, Robert L. Grissom professor of internal medicine and vice chair and chief of rheumatology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, in Omaha, who, told the attendees at the American College of Rheumatology Covergence 2021 annual meeting.
Continue reading “‘Horribly mismanaged’: Debate over gout treatment rages as cases surge”High Blood Pressure, Prescription Diuretics, and Gout
What is high blood pressure?
High Blood Pressure, also called hypertension, is when blood puts too much pressure against the walls of your arteries. About 1 in 3 adults have high blood pressure, usually with no symptoms. But it can cause serious problems such as stroke, heart failure, heart attack, and kidney disease.
What lifestyle changes can help lower high blood pressure?
Continue reading “Diuretics and Gout: Is there a connection?”Date: June 13, 2022
Source: University of Southern California
Summary: Stress — in the form of traumatic events, job strain, everyday stressors and discrimination — accelerates aging of the immune system, potentially increasing a person’s risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease and illness from infections such as COVID-19, according to a new study. The research could help explain disparities in age-related health, including the unequal toll of the pandemic, and identify possible points for intervention.
Continue reading “Stress accelerates immune aging, study finds”
