1 Department of Orthopaedics, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China 2 College of Nursing, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China Objective: Gout is a common ...

gout is still very much prevalent and can have very serious knock-on effects on your health. Advert One person to experience this was Niven Hopkins, who was diagnosed with stage four chronic ...

In this study, just over 15% of participants with gout for less than 10 years had tophaceous disease. Creatinine clearance was the major factor independently associated with early presentation ...

Among individuals with gout, 94.3% received a physician diagnosis, 99.5% had experienced a flare, and 66.0% reported having a flare in the past 12 months. Tophi were reported among 18.8% of cases.

Abdominal pain is considered chronic if it lasts for more than three months. The pain may be constant or it can come and go over the three-month period or longer. There are many health conditions, ...

Gout, also popularly known as the disease of the kings and king of diseases, is a type of arthritis that indicates excess uric acid in your body. These uric acids crystallise and collect in the ...

These crystals lead to arthritis and inflammation. A rare, severe, and chronic form of gout that is difficult to treat is called refractory gout. Chronic arthritis, redness tophi (lumps that develop ...

The present study quantifies the impact of the presence of tophi and frequency of acute gout attacks on health-related quality of life (HRQOL), productivity, and healthcare resource utilization.

After developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do — and still don’t — understand about the disease. Here is what I learned. By Jennifer Kahn Most of us don’t think ...

I think we’re past the point where I have to explain that chronic pain is not the result of imbalanced humors or a wandering uterus or possession by demons. But for more modern skeptics ...