CPD module: Gout

After completing this module, you should be more aware of:

1. gout prevalence and characteristics;
2. physical and biochemical aspects of gout inflammatory processes;
3. high serum uric acid levels not necessarily causing gout;
4. the metabolism of purines into uric acid factors which may influence this;
5. intrinsic and extrinsic sources of uric acid;
6. drugs which may raise uric acid levels;
7. potentially beneficial aspects of uric acid in the body;
8. adverse effects associated in other conditions;
9. normal serum uric acid levels and what is considered hyperuricaemia;
10. gout diagnosis and other conditions to consider;
11. pharmacological treatments for gout for acute and long-term treatment;
12. differences between urate lowering therapies (ULTs) and other gout treatments;
13. dietary influences on serum uric acid levels.