Gout - Causes - Diagnosis - Symptoms - Treatment

Essential gout information will help you recognize symptoms and manage the disease.

A gout attack causes sudden and intense joint pain. Most often, a gout attack affects a single joint but it is possible for a few joints to be involved. Learn what to expect during a gout attack.

Gout is an intensely painful type of arthritis. There are 10 important facts you should know about gout.

Gout is one of the most painful types of arthritis. Learn more about cause, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of gout.

Learn more about all aspects of gout including symptoms, treatment and research.

Gout is one of the most painful types of arthritis. Do you have symptoms which are associated with gout? Do you have a lifestyle which increases the risk factors associated with gout?

A risk factor increases your chances of developing gout but it is not certain that you will develop the disease. What factors increase the risk of developing gout?

Gout symptoms are very painful and are caused by monosodium urate crystals in joints and surrounding tissues. Gout symptoms can occur with more frequency if untreated.

How much do you know about gout? You probably heard of it, but do you know the difference between purines and probenecid? Do you know what you need to do to prevent gout attacks? Does your lifestyle put you at risk for gout?

Gout is one of the forms of arthritis most affected by diet. Take our quiz about gout and diet and test your knowledge and see if you know what foods to eat and what foods to avoid if you have gout.

We have designed our free newsletter e-course to guide you to better understand gout. Learn more about gout basics, history, cause, diagnosis, treatment options, prevention, gout diet, gout medications, and gout research.

Gout and pseudogout are similar in some ways yet different in other ways. The term pseudogout means "false gout". How much do you know about both diseases? Take our quiz.

Gout is one of the most painful types of arthritis. Gout attacks can be controlled or prevented by better gout diet and lifestyle changes and the use of certain medications.

The focus of gout treatment is on preventing future gout attacks and managing symptonms when attacks occur.

People with gout are advised what not to eat but what should they eat?

Information on gout diet and food to avoid.

What risk factors are associated with developing gout?

Gout does not sexually discriminate. Women and men suffering with gout share certain risk factors.

Watching your diet is part of the solution for reducing gout attacks. Cut back on purine-rich foods.

A brief explanation and fast facts about Hyperuricemia.

These spiked rods are uric acid crystals photographed under polarized light. Increased uric acid blood levels and formation of uric acid crystals in the joints are associated with gout.

Information on acute gouty arthritis. Acute gouty arthritis is an attack of a metabolic disease marked by uric acid deposits in the joints. The disorder causes painful arthritis, especially in the joints of the feet and legs.

Information on chronic gouty arthritis. Gouty arthritis is the name for an attack of a metabolic disease marked by uric acid deposits in the joints. The disorder causes pain, especially in the joints of the feet and legs. Patients with chronic gout may have repeated episodes of gouty arthritis. (Illustration)

A brief explanation and fast facts about gouty arthritis.

Cherries for gout?, Cherries may help gout, according to research at the Agricultural Research Service's Western Human Nutrition Research Center in Davis, CA, eating fresh, plump, juicy bing cherries may help people who suffer from the pain of gout or other forms of arthritic inflammation.

An in-depth report on the causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of gout.

What is gout?, since the days of Hippocrates, gout has caused much human suffering. Gout was once known as "the disease of kings" and "the king of diseases". Gout is recognized as one of the leading causes of painful, disabling, chronic arthritis.

Learn about gout disease yesterday and today. Many antiquated ideas about gout disease from centuries ago reveal just how far modern medicine has come with better treatment options for gout disease.

Dispel the myths about this painful disorder by getting to know gout.

Information on the cause, symptoms and treatment of Pseudogout. Pseudogout is a joint disease that may include intermittent attacks of arthritis. It is caused by the collection of calcium pyrophosphate crystals in joints. It can be initially be misdiagnosed as gouty arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or osteoarthritis because the symptoms are similar to those of these conditions.

A brief explanation and fast facts about CPPD(Calcium Pyrophosphate Dihydrate Deposition Disease), which is also known as pseudogout.

Researchers from Lausanne University in Switzerland report that they now know the mechanism which triggers the inflammation associated with gout.