Objectives: To analyze the clinical and para-clinical characteristics of patients with gout disease diagnosed by the 2015 EULAR/ACR criteria. Subjects and methods: 31 patients who were diagnosed with gout disease were selected. The study had focused on age, gender, lifestyles, history and current patterns of gout, VAS (Visual Analog Scale) index, plasma uric acid levels, hs-CRP, ESR, ultrasound images of affected joints. | Journal of military pharmaco-medicine STUDY ON CLINICAL AND PARACLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS WITH GOUT DISEASE DIAGNOSED BY THE 2015 EULAR/ACR CRITERIA Ton Thanh Tung*; Nguyen Ngoc Chau* SUMMARY Objectives: To analyze the clinical and para-clinical characteristics of patients with gout disease diagnosed by the 2015 EULAR/ACR criteria. Subjects and methods: 31 patients who were diagnosed with gout disease were selected. The study had focused on age, gender, lifestyles, history and current patterns of gout, VAS (Visual Analog Scale) index, plasma uric acid levels, hs-CRP, ESR, ultrasound images of affected joints. Results: The majority were male (). The mean age of onset was ± years, the common age group of onset was from 20 to 40 () and commonly with the heavy pain (). of patients were not diagnosed with the first episode of gout lower than previous study’s with statistical significance, the mean time for the definite diagnosis was ± years. Hs-CRP and ESR were two common inflammatory markers. of patients had normal range of uric acid. The double contour lesion accounted for . There was a moderate positive correlation between the 2015 EULAR/ACR classification criteria for gout scores and the frequency of recurrence attacks of gout per year (r = ; p ± We have known that alcohol and beer had played a big role in increasing the uric acid concentration by the mechanisms of overproduction and reduced excretion uric acid. In our study, 100% of patients had the history of using too much alcohol or beer in the long term ( of patients used alcohol, of patients used beer). The mean quantity of alcohol using was ± g/day, the mean quantity of beer using was ± g/day. However, in our study, alcohol and beer affected to the uric acid concentration equally without statistical significance (p > ). Table 2: Diagnostic features. Diagnostic features Diagnosed with the .
