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What is Gout?

Gout (English: gout, scientific name: metabolic arthritis) is also called “hyperuricemia”, is a result of purine (a translation of “Spring”), metabolic disorder, so that diseases caused by accumulation of uric acid, is a kind of arthritis , also known as metabolic arthritis. Gout is defined as the body has a substance called purine metabolism disorder occurred, uric acid (the oxidation of purine metabolites) has been synthesized to increase or reduce the discharge, resulting in hyperuricemia, when the serum uric acid concentration is too high, uric acid is in the form of sodium salt deposition in the joints, soft tissues, cartilage and kidney, causing a foreign body tissue inflammation, called gout.