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After completing this module, you should be more aware of:
- gout prevalence and characteristics;
- physical and biochemical aspects of gout inflammatory processes;
- high serum uric acid levels not necessarily causing gout;
- the metabolism of purines into uric acid factors which may influence this;
- intrinsic and extrinsic sources of uric acid;
- drugs which may raise uric acid levels;
- potentially beneficial aspects of uric acid in the body;
- adverse effects associated in other conditions;
- normal serum uric acid levels and what is considered hyperuricaemia;
- gout diagnosis and other conditions to consider;
- pharmacological treatments for gout for acute and long-term treatment;
- differences between urate lowering therapies (ULTs) and other gout treatments;
- dietary influences on serum uric acid levels.