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The treatment you get for gout can depend on the frequency and severity of your flares. If you’re seeing a healthcare provider during a gout flare, they may recommend using medications to reduce ...
A gout flare can be controlled with short-term and long-term medications. Learn what medications are available to help keep your symptoms under control.
Gout causes uric acid build up that forms crystals inside your joint to bring on pain and discomfort. Learn what gout is and how to ease flare ups at WebMD.
The goals of therapy in gout include not simply active and rapid treatment of acute gout flares but also prevention of acute gout attacks, whose major precipitating factors are listed in Table 9-1.
Gout flares are associated with cardiovascular events. Treating gout to target serum urate levels prevents flares, but ...
This study, based on a US administrative claims database, examined prescription patterns, comorbidities and flares determinants in a very large population of gout patients. In line with current ...
There is no cure for gout, but treatments can help slow the progression of the disease and reduce the frequency and severity of disease flare-ups. Dietary choices, medication, and other strategies ...
Gout treatment involves two key steps: managing flare-ups and long-term prevention. During a flare, NSAIDs , prescribed medications or steroids are used to reduce inflammation and pain.
Over the years, gout has grown in clinical complexity. We see many more cases with iatrogenic factors, multiple comorbidities, advanced age and treatment-refractory hyperuricemia and arthritis ...
Their treatments are also quite different. There’s one similarity that stands out: Without treatment, gout and rheumatoid arthritis can both get progressively worse and cause joint deformity.
This retrospective cohort study was conducted in the PharMetrics Patient-Centric Database, an administrative claims database which contains medical and pharmacy claims for > 55 million patients ...