What is parallel gout ? Explain it with examples
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Gout is a crystal-deposition disease caused by the super saturation and precipitation of MSU crystals in tissues resulting in inflammation and tissue damage. Gout is characterized by acute and subacute attacks. The clinical course of gout can be summarized into three stages:
Acute gout,
Intercritical gout and recurrent gout,
Chronic tophaceous gout.
Hyperuricemia is the underlying metabolic aberrancy in gout and is defined as a serum urate level >6.8 mg/dL, a level at which urate precipitates into MSU crystals.
Prevalence
Gout is a relatively common disease, with a higher prevalence in men than in women. Between 3 and 8 million American adults (about 3% of the population) are estimated to have gout.1-3 The estimated prevalence is nearly 7% among men older than 65 years.4
Overall, the prevalence of gout has been increasing.5 Factors contributing to this rise include increases in alcohol use, purine-rich diets, rates of obesity and the metabolic syndrome, and use of diuretic agents.