What is gout?

Gout is an ancient disease, is a frequently-occurring disease in recent years, and people closely related to the improvement of living standards. According to statistics, over 15 years ago, with an increase of 15-30 times. Gout disease at any age, can occur. Gout is not a single disease, but a syndrome, is a body of material for purine metabolic disorder caused by. By the repeated attacks of acute arthritis, gout stones merger, increased serum uric acid concentrations, and joint deformities, such as kidney disease characterized. Most of the patients over 30 years of age for men, the male and female ratio is about 20:1 other. In addition, more than half of gout patients have about family history, genetic etiology of the disease, gout is very important.