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Allopurinol Medication Adherence Increased With Daily Text Message Reminders
Mobile phone text reminders could be an important tool to enhance medication adherence in people with gout.
Gout, Urate-Lowering Therapy Not Associated With Risk for Fragility Fracture
The use of urate-lowering therapy in patients with gout had neither beneficial nor adverse effects on long-term fracture risk.
Pegloticase Retreatment Effective for Gout After Gap in Therapy
The study authors retrospectively analyzed the charts of 4 chronic gout patients from a practice-based rheumatology clinic.
Incident Gout Risk, Serum Urate, and Comorbidities: What Are the Links?
Ethnicity and hypertension have an association with incident gout that is not fully explained by differences in serum urate.
Crystal-Proven Gout, Gout Severity Factors Linked to Cardiovascular Disease
Investigators sought to examine the prevalence of CVD in patients with crystal-proven gout compared with control patients with arthritis.
Racial Variations Linked to Risk for Allopurinol-Associated Adverse Reactions
Researchers found that the overall risk for hospitalization due to allopurinol-associated severe cutaneous adverse reactions is rare.
Corticosteroids May Be an Effective Alternative to NSAIDs in Acute Gout Pain
Corticosteroids appear to be a reasonable alternative to NSAIDs for the treatment of acute pain as a result of gout.
Fenofibrate Decreases Plasma Uric Acid Concentration, Gout Events in T2D
Fenofibrate may be a valuable adjunct therapy in type 2 diabetes to reduce the burden of gout.
Allopurinol Dose Escalation May Not Improve Survival in Patients With Gout
Investigators sought to determine whether allopurinol dose escalation is associated with all-cause mortality.
Ultrasound Reliably Identifies Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease
Ultrasound is a reliable diagnostic tool for identifying calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease.
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