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ReviewTherapeutic advances in chronic disease2016

Gout: optimizing treatment to achieve a disease cure.

José Antonio Bernal, Neus Quilis, Mariano Andrés, Francisca Sivera, Eliseo Pascual

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Review in Therapeutic advances in chronic disease, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  3. Review
  4. Quality Care Assessment in Gout.Current rheumatology reports · 2025
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  9. Review: Gout: A Roadmap to Approaches for Improving Global Outcomes.Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2017
    Review
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  11. Therapeutic Efficacy of Urinile Against Gouty Arthritis.Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

José Antonio BernalSección de Reumatología, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Pintor Baeza 12, Alicante, 03010, Spain.
Neus QuilisSección de Reumatología, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Mariano AndrésSección de Reumatología, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Francisca SiveraSección de Reumatología, Hospital General Universitario de Elda, Alicante, Spain.
Eliseo PascualSección de Reumatología, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Alicante, Spain; Departamento de Medicina (Reumatología), Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gout is one of the most common inflammatory arthritides. The disease is due to the deposition of monosodium urate crystals. These deposits are reversible with proper treatment, suggesting that gout is a curable disease. The main aim in gout is to lower serum uric acid levels to a pre-established target; there are different urate-lowering drugs (xanthine oxidase inhibitors, uricosurics and uricases) through which this can be achieved. Proper treatment of gout also involves correct management of acute flares and their prevention. To ensure treatment adherence it is necessary to explain to the patient what the objectives are.

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allopurinolcolchicinegoutmonosodium urate crystalsuric acid

Identifiers

PMID26977282
PMCPMC4772341

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