Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28818081›Full record

ReviewBMC medicine2017

What makes gouty inflammation so variable?

Robert Terkeltaub

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Review in BMC medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
48citing papers in PubMed
4.2field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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

48 citing papers in PubMed, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Medicinal Value ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  13. The NADase CD38 is a central regulator in gouty inflammation and a novel druggable therapeutic target.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2024
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  15. Relief of gouty arthritis in rats by total saponins fromExperimental and therapeutic medicine · 2023
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robert TerkeltaubVA San Diego Healthcare System, 111K, 3350 La Jolla Village Drive, San Diego, CA, 92161, USA. rterkeltaub@ucsd.edu.
VA San Diego Healthcare System · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute gout arthritis flares contribute dominantly to gout-specific impaired health-related quality of life, representing a progressively increasing public health problem. Flares can be complex and expensive to treat, partly due to the frequent comorbidities. Unmet needs in gout management are more pressing given the markedly increasing gout flare hospital admission rates. In addition, chronic gouty arthritis can cause joint damage and functional impairment. This review addresses new knowledge on the basis for the marked, inherent variability of responses to deposited urate crystals, including the unpredictable and self-limited aspects of many gout flares. Specific topics reviewed include how innate immunity and two-signal inflammasome activation intersect with diet, metabolism, nutritional biosensing, the microbiome, and the phagocyte cytoskeleton and cell fate. The paper discusses the roles of endogenous constitutive regulators of inflammation, including certain nutritional biosensors, and emerging genetic and epigenetic factors. Recent advances in the basis of variability in responses to urate crystals in gout provide information about inflammatory arthritis, and have identified potential new targets and strategies for anti-inflammatory prevention and treatment of gouty arthritis.

Indexed as

AnimalsAnti-Inflammatory AgentsArthritis, GoutyComorbidityForecastingHumansInflammationQuality of LifeUric AcidAnti-Inflammatory AgentsUric AcidAMPKGout flareIL-37miR-146amiR-155NLRP3 inflammasomePGC1BPPAR-γShort-chain fatty acidsβ-hydroxybutyrate

Identifiers

PMID28818081
PMCPMC5561591
OpenAlexW2743905759

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