NEW YORK, Feb 13: Gout, a condition often linked to poor lifestyle choices such as excessive drinking or unhealthy eating ...

The research identified a large number of immune genes and immune pathways that provide new targets and approaches for ...

Gout is often associated with drinking too much or not eating healthily enough, but research suggests genetics play more of a ...

Liquid crystals are substances that flow like a liquid but maintain some of the ordered structure of crystals. Liquid-crystal molecules tend to be elongated and to orient in specific directions.

Patients with debilitating gout are being failed by the NHS because of outdated practices which mean they are prescribed only a third of the medication they need, experts claim.

Without treatment, gout can reoccur several times a year and cause erosion and destruction in the affected joints. Urate crystals can also accumulate in the urinary tracts of people with gout, which ...

Among patients with gout in the US, Black individuals and those living in the South were associated with reduced adherence to allopurinol.

This study aimed to explore why gout develops in some people but not others, focusing on the genetic and molecular factors involved in urate crystal formation within the joints. The researchers ...

A normal serum urate level for assigned females is 1.5 to 6.0 mg/dL. For assigned males, it is 2.5 to 7.0 mg/dL. Hyperuricemia itself is not a disease. In some cases, it does not cause symptoms or ...

No gout attack has occurred since the sixth infusion ... Numerous negatively birefringent needle-shaped monosodium urate crystals are detected by compensated polarized-light microscopy (original ...

Biological and Chemical Research Centre, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Z. wirki i Wigury 101, 02-089 Warszawa, Poland ...