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Gout & Uric Acid Education Society
March 2016 Newsletter
  


The Gout & Uric Acid Education Society (GUAES) is committed to raising public awareness about gout and arming health care professionals, like you, with resources to share with patients and the most up-to-date information about gout diagnosis and treatment.
 
March is National Kidney Month. Today, more than 26 million Americans are living with renal disease. Those who have gout are more likely to develop the disease. Additionally, one in five people with gout will develop kidney stones. Left untreated, these stones can block the urinary tract and result in infection. 

Encourage your patients to get their serum uric acid tested every six months to minimize risk for gout and protect their renal health. Remind patients about steps they can take to properly manage gout and renal disease, including taking medications as prescribed; exercising regularly and maintaining a healthy body weight; and staying hydrated to flush their kidneys and help to remove uric acid from the bloodstream. 
 CreateHealth Seeking 
Gout Patients
  

CreateHealth would like to interview female patients based in the United States to learn more about their management and treatment of gout. By sharing patient stories - including those who are living with gout - CreateHealth aims to help health care providers understand how to better support the needs of patients. 

Patients are not required to prepare, or have any special knowledge to contribute. 

For more details, patients can visit gout.createhealth.io. 
Featured Material from the 
Gout & Uric Acid Education Society 

 
Offer the following brochure to patients to help explain the connection between gout and renal health. Download the brochure here or use the 'Contact Us' form on GoutEducation.org to order complimentary print versions of this material. 
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