Abstracts tagged "Gout and uric acid"

Abstract Number: 1630 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Genetic Variants of Serum Uric Acid and Gout: An Analysis of > 170,000 Individuals
Hyon Choi¹, Robert M. Plenge², Anna Köttgen³, Veronique Vitart⁴, Murielle Bochud⁵, Christian Gieger⁶, Mark Caulfield⁷, Marina Ciullo⁸, Eva Albrecht⁶, Alexander Teumer⁹, Gary Curhan¹⁰, Jan Krumsiek¹¹, Conall O'Seaghdha¹², Caroline Fox¹³ and The Global Urate Genetics Consortium (GUGC)¹⁴, ¹Section of Rheumatology and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ²Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy and Division of Genetics, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ³Renal Division, Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany, ⁴Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, ⁵Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland, ⁶German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, ⁷William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom, ⁸Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, "A. Buzzati-Traverso", Italy, ⁹Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt- University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, ¹⁰German Research Center for Environmental Health, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ¹¹Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany, ¹²German Research Center for Environmental Health, NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study and Center for Population Studies,, Neuherberg, ¹³Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study and Center for Population Studies, Framingham, MA, ¹⁴Section of Rheumatology and the Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Boston University of School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Gout is a common and excruciatingly painful inflammatory arthritis caused by hyperuricemia. In addition to various lifestyle risk factors, a substantial genetic predisposition to…
Abstract Number: 818 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Levotofisopam Has Uricosuric Activity and Reduces Serum Urate Levels in Patients with Gout
Robert J. Noveck¹, Zongyao Wang¹, Ann Forsthoefel¹, Kristina Sigmon², Pauliana C. Hall³, John C. Keogh⁴ and John S. Sundy², ¹Duke Clinical Research Unit, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ²Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, ³PCH Integrated Regulatory Services, Inc., Laguna Niguel, CA, ⁴Keogh Medical Writing, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: The investigational new drug levotofisopam is the S-enantiomer of racemic tofisopam, a 2,3-benzodiazepine derivative approved in over 20 countries outside the US for treatment…
Abstract Number: 161 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Increased Serum Uric Acid: Consequence or Cause of Increased Cardiovascular Risk
Inger L. Meek¹, Harald E. Vonkeman² and Mart A.F.J. van de Laar³, ¹Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, Rheumatology Center Twente, Medisch Spectrum Twente & Twente University, Enschede, Netherlands, ²Rheumatology Center Twente, Medisch Spectrum Twente & Twente University, Enschede, Netherlands, ³Rheumatology, Medisch Spectrum Twente & University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Reports on cardiovascular (CV) disease in hyperuricemia and gout show conflicting results. Some studies show hyperuricemia to be an independent risk factor for CV…
Abstract Number: 138 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Evaluating Appropriate Use of Prophylactic Colchicine and Urate Lowering Therapy in Gout
Michael George¹, Sally W. Pullman-Mooar² and H. Ralph Schumacher³, ¹Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Veterans Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, ³Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Colchicine is recommended to prevent gout flares in patients initiating and increasing uric acid lowering therapy until serum uric acid is ≤ 6 mg/dL.…
Abstract Number: 1902 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
What Factors Are Associated with Target Serum Urate Concentrations in Patients with Gout?
Nicola Dalbeth¹, Meaghan House², Anne Horne², Keith J. Petrie³, Fiona M. McQueen⁴ and William Taylor⁵, ¹Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, ²Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, ³University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, ⁴Molecular Medicine and Pathology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, ⁵University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand
Background/Purpose: Long term serum urate (SU) lowering to a target of

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