How early detection of gout

Gout early detection of the most simple and effective method is to detect serum uric acid concentrations. To carry out large-scale population census of serum uric acid can be found in time hyperuricemia, which early detection and early prevention and treatment of gout is very important significance. In the present conditions there is no large-scale test of serum uric acid circumstances, at least to the following officers of conventional detection of serum uric acid: (1) elderly people over the age of 60, whether male or female and whether it is obesity. (2) obesity in middle-aged men and post-menopausal women. (3) hypertension, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease (such as cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage) patients. (4) diabetes mellitus (type II diabetes is mainly). (5) the reasons for not prescribed arthritis, especially middle-aged and older patients with arthritis, as a single feature. (6) kidney stones, kidney stones and especially the multiple bilateral renal calculi patients. (7) a family history of gout members. (8) Long-term meat, and drinking habits of middle-aged and older people. All the above situation in any one person should take the initiative to go to the hospital to the laboratory examination of gout, as well as early detection hyperuricemia and gout, and will not wait until there has been a typical clinical symptoms (such as subcutaneous Gout stones) to the doctor after. If the initial inspection of serum uric acid normal, and should not be lightly dismissed Gout and Hyperuricemia possibilities. After periodic review should be at least annual health inspections. This will enable early detection rate of gout increased substantially.