Gout Comorbidity (Diseases that often coincide with gout)

Gout is often considered part of the metabolic or X syndrome, which also involves diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia (high triglycerides and low density cholesterol and low high density cholesterol and cardiovascular and kidney disease. An often ignored fact is that people with gout have a higher risk of developing hyperparathyroidism (HPTH). Excess parathyroid hormone (PTH) causes bone loss but prevents the elimination in urine of the calcium from the bones and increases phosphorous and magnesium elimination in urine, so that serum calcium gradually rises and phosphorous gradually drops

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Gout Comorbidity (Diseases that often coincide with gout)

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