gout: uric acid target less than 6 prevented cardiovascular problems
gout: uric acid target <6 prevented cardiovascular problems Modest, Geoffrey (HMFP - Medicine) Modest, Geoffrey (HMFP - Medicine) a new study found that in patients with gout, a serum urate target level <6 prevented cardiovascular problems (see gout dec UA to less than 6 dec cardiovasc JAMAintmed2026 or doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.7453) Details : -- 109,504 patients who had gout and were new users of urate lowering medications were identified in the primary care database from the UK's Clinical Practice Research Datalink Aurum linking hospitalization and mortality records , from January 1, 2007, to March 29, 2021 and followed up to 5 years -- all were at 18yo or older, had a pretreatment serum urate (SU) level higher than 6mg/dL, and were newly prescribed urate-lowering therapy (ULT), with data a nalyzed from May 2024 to January 2025 -- all had a first coding for gout, gout tophi, or a gout flare in their records -- patients were assigned ...