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Discover LudwigThe phrase "as a gout" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is unclear when this phrase could be used, as it does not seem to fit any common context or expression.
Example: "He was feeling pain in his joints, which he described as a gout."
Alternatives: "as a result" or "in a manner".
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Sakiyama, M. et al. Identification of rs671, a common variant of ALDH2, as a gout susceptibility locus.
(And I can encounter these women where?) Perhaps in the near future some cool young women writers will fess up to gout, and we can look forward to such titles as "A Gout of One's Own," "Gout and Prejudice," "Gout and the City" and the one I think just can't miss, "Gouty Bitch".
The findings suggest that the rheumatoid arthritis drug Anakinra, which blocks IL-1β and is being investigated as a gout treatment, could be used to prevent asbestos-triggered damage, says Tschopp.
The use of diuretic medications is well established as a gout risk factor [ 24], perhaps by inhibition of urate excretion mediated by human organic anion transporter 4 [ 25].
To increase the sensitivity and specificity of the gout identification algorithm, a patient was only classified as a gout patient if two distinct medical encounters with a diagnosis of gout were present in the record.
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As a result gout has become a paradigm for the rational treatment and prevention of a chronic rheumatic disease.
The index date was defined as the first occurrence of a gout claim during the study period.
For the ascertainment of incident gout patients, we also excluded all individuals with a gout diagnosis before the start date (considered as prevalent gout) from the study population.
A court doctor who examined Demjanjuk on three occasions told the court he had a type of leukaemia – a rare bone marrow complaint that can affect the elderly – as well as gout, a trapped nerve in his spine and pains in his limbs, but was fit to stand trial despite his ailments and the fact that he was "a little slow" when he spoke.
In Germany, patients with an sUA level of 360 420 μmol/l (6 7 mg/dl) were 1.37 times more likely to experience a gout flare than those in whom sUA was <360 μmol/l (<6 mg/dl; OR = 1.37; p = NS), and those with an sUA level ⩾530 μmol/l (⩾9 mg/dl) were more than twice as likely to experience a gout flare (OR = 2.48; p<0.01) (table 3).
Salicin and salicylic acid were widely used by 19th century European physicians to treat rheumatic fever and as an antipyretic, gout remedy, and analgesic, particularly for joint pain [ 46].
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