People with low serum urate concentrations were more likely to die than those with normal levels, but it's probably a marker for other pathologies rather than direct cause-and-effect, a new study ...

Japanese people with hyperuricemia saw some reductions in urate levels when they lost weight, with greater losses tied to greater decreases in serum urate, researchers said. Among people with urate ...

Lower limits on serum urate levels applied in gout management may be based on a misreading of data on mortality risks, researchers say. Low urate levels may not in themselves pose a risk of death but ...

A new study may reduce the concern that elevating levels of urate, an approach being investigated to treat several neurodegenerative disorders, could increase the risk of hypertension. A study from a ...

The association of cancer risk and alcohol varies by tumor type, as alcohol consumption has been ass Ethanol content of drinks is not the sole contributing factor. In addition to ethanol content, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Physicians who are not rheumatologists are less likely to test serum urate levels. Researchers said there are ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have used cryo-electron microscopy to generate ten structures of URAT1, a protein linked to gout. Gout is a type of arthritis caused by excess urate ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Despite recently updated guidelines, urate-lowering therapy use, and the achievement of urate targets, remain ...

Achieving serum urate to below 6 mg/dL with urate-lowering therapy (ULT) in patients with gout and chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage III is not linked to an increased risk for severe or end-stage ...

Men who have high levels of urate, also known as uric acid, in their blood may be less likely to develop Parkinson's disease, according to a new study. Men who have high levels of urate, also known as ...

A small exploratory study from Dalbeth et al. investigating the effect of pegloticase on radiographic damage in patients with tophaceous gout has shown that this treatment results in profound urate ...