Credit: Getty Images The intense pain and inflammation caused by gout may pose physical limitations that affect the mental and emotional health of patients living with the disease. Gout is an ...

Gout flares are associated with cardiovascular events. Treating gout to target serum urate levels prevents flares, but whether such treatment can also prevent cardiovascular events is unknown. An ...

If left untreated, a flare-up of gout symptoms can last a few days with proper treatment and up to a few weeks. Gout is an inflammatory disease that causes flare-ups of symptoms that come and go. The ...

Making dietary shifts, lifestyle changes, and adjustments to your medications may be the most effective ways to prevent gout from developing or reduce your chance of flares. Gout is a painful form of ...

GLASGOW, Scotland — Whether anti-inflammatory drugs should always be used to prevent flares when initiating urate-lowering therapy (ULT) for gout remains an open question as experts discussed its ...

Gout is a common type of inflammatory arthritis that affects approximately 41 million adults worldwide. It is marked by high levels of uric acid in the blood (known as hyperuricemia), which form ...

The glucose-lowering drug class sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors appear to reduce the risk for recurrent gout flares in people with gout and type 2 diabetes, and to lessen excess ...

Cherries have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Some people may find drinking cherry juice helps with gout flare-ups. However, the evidence to support this is conflicting. Gout is a type ...

For patients with gout and type 2 diabetes, sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2is) are associated with a reduced risk for recurrent gout flares and gout-primary emergency department ...