The 2012 American College of Rheumatology gout treatment guidelines recommend titration of urate-lowering medication doses to achieve target serum uric acid (sUA) levels of less than 6 mg/dL. Analysis ...

Trial subgroup analyses support the use of either allopurinol or febuxostat in patients with stage 3 CKD and gout. A prespecified analysis of the STOP-GOUT trial revealed that allopurinol has similar ...

For gout, xanthine oxidase (XO) inhibitors are the choice for first-line urate-lowering therapy (ULT) according to the 2020 American College of Rheumatology Guideline for the Management of Gout, which ...

Gout and chronic kidney disease (CKD) often co-exist, and while common urate-lowering therapies (ULT), such as allopurinol, are indicated for patients with gout, concerns associated with renal ...

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