Early urate-lowering therapy in gouty arthritis with acute flares: a double-blind placebo controlled clinical trial

Abstract Background Gouty arthritis (GA) is a chronic systemic disease with recurrent acute monoarthritis. In a previous study, a higher incidence of acute flares was observed during the initial marked decrease in serum urate level. Our study evaluated the effect of early urate-lowering therapy in p...

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Main Authors: Deng-Ho Yang, Hsiang-Cheng Chen, James Cheng-Chung Wei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-01-01
Series:European Journal of Medical Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40001-022-00982-8