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Gout, an inflammatory disease of the joint

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Gout is a chronic disease linked to uric acid metabolism © Shutterstock - Doucefleur

By: Caroline Paré Follow

This disease was formerly called the "disease of kings", because it is more common in people who eat rich foods and who drink a little too much alcohol.

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Gout is a chronic disease related to uric acid metabolism.

Transformed into urate crystals, these are deposited in certain tissues, particularly in the joints, causing pain attacks that can last from two to ten days.

How to recognize a gout attack?

How to treat it?

What should you change in your habits when you are affected?

• Dr Patrick Sichere

  , rheumatologist and president of the Pain Relief Committee of the Hospitals of Saint-Denis in the Paris region

• Pr Joelle Tiendrebeogo

  , Associate Lecturer in Rheumatology at

  the Joseph KI-ZERBO

  University and rheumatologist

  CHU of BOGODOGO in Burkina Faso.

At the end of the program, we find the sports chronicle of

, sports doctor.

► All chronicles are accessible

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