Imagine waking up from a good night sleep to a swollen joint or redness or limited mobility? When it persistently happens, this is your body indicating you that there is something not functioning ...

Uric acid is a waste product in the body. Sometimes, uric acid can build up in the joints and tissues, causing a range of health problems. In this article, we list the typical low, normal, and high ...

People do not think about Uric acid until it starts causing problems. It is a chemical in our blood that comes from the food we eat. Our body generally removes uric acid through urine but sometimes it ...

New research indicates that a drug commonly prescribed for gout may also lower the risk of heart attack and stroke when taken ...

Gout is a form of arthritis that results from excessive buildup of uric acid in your body. Since certain foods may either trigger or improve gout, treatment for this painful joint condition may ...

Asymptomatic hyperuricemia Acute/intermittent gout Advanced gout (or what used to be called chronic tophaceous gout). The rate of progression from asymptomatic hyperuricemia to advanced gout varies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For most of us, if we’ve heard of uric acid at all, it’s only in relation to gout — a painful form of arthritis that occurs when ...

Arthritis Care Research News Alerts. 2007;57(5):816-821. High uric acid levels in the blood are a precursor of gout, the most common inflammatory arthritis in adult men. It is believed that coffee and ...

Among individuals aged 15-34 years with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes (T1D), plasma uric acid levels were significantly higher in those who later developed diabetes-related complications and were ...