Getting Rid of Gout
Author(s): Bryan Emmerson
Anyone suffering from this traumatic arthritic condition should appreciate this title. Included in the new sections are updated dietary guidelines, including contemporary research on the role of diet in preventing gout, and a description of the new medications available.
Product Information
A concise but comprehensive book on gout for the lay reader.
1. Gout from the earliest times; 2. What is gout? Acute, recurrent and chronic gout; 3. Urate (or uric acid) in the body; 4. Hyperuricaemia; 5. What causes hyperuricaemia?; 6. Urate crystal formation; 7. Gout and the kidney; 8. Gout and the blood vessels; 9. How to manage your gout; 10. Medication used to treat an acute attack of gout; 11. Preventing gout by correcting hyperuricaemia; 12. Bringing your urate concentrations down to normal; 13. Questions and answers about gout
General Fields
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- : Oxford University Press
- : OUP Australia and New Zealand
- : 0.2
- : 01 April 2003
- : 212mm X 136mm X 6mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : Bryan Emmerson
- : Paperback
- : 2nd Revised edition
- : 616.3999
- : 152
- : illustrations, 27cartoons
