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Gout team, from left, includes
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RHEUMATOLOGY
Team of UAB rheumatologists develops new clinic for patients with gout.
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13 UAB Rheumatologists named
Best Doctors in America®
S. Louis Bridges Jr, MD, PhD
Robert P. Kimberly, MD
W. Winn Chatham, MD
Sarah L. Morgan, MD, RD
Jeffrey R. Curtis, MD, MS,
MPH
Maria I. Danila, MD, MSc
Kenneth G. Saag, MD, MSc
Harry W. Schroeder Jr, MD,
PhD
Barri J. Fessler, MD, MSPH
Jasvinder Singh, MD, MPH
Angelo L. Gaffo, MD, MSPH
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ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS
Gout Incidence Up:
New Opportunities in an Old Disease
The UAB Scleroderma Clinic:
Management of a Complex Multisystem
Disease
Meeting the Challenges of Vasculitis
editions of UAB Medicine Insight
David M. Spalding, MD
• Recent news and updates
for referring physicians
Iain McInnes Delivers the 17th Cochrane
Lecture, on Immune Therapeutics
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Gout may affect up to 4% of the general US population,
Gout is not only the disease of joints, but also a risk
according to a recent estimate, and its prevalence is
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Publications of Note
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Measures of Success
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factor for heart disease, such as myocardial infarction, and
increasing, in parallel with the obesity epidemic. This
for mortality due to cardiovascular disease. Research into its
makes gout the most common inflammatory arthritis among
Meeting the Challenges
of Vasculitis
effects on kidneys and other organs is ongoing.
US adults. “Despite the fact that gout is one of the oldest
Gout presents enormous opportunities for advancing
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diseases known to mankind, there are many unknowns with
the science and practice of medicine, says Singh. Recently,
regard to its systematic manifestations, that go beyond the
the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal
joint,” says Jasvinder Singh, MD, MS, MPH, director of the
and Skin Diseases funded the UAB Center of Research
new UAB Gout Clinic. “The introduction of several new
Featured Clinical Trials
• Links to other helpful resources
Laura B. Hughes, MD, MSPH
Friends of UAB Gather at ACR Session
The UAB Scleroderma Clinic:
Management of a Complex
Multisystem Disease
Gout Incidence Up:
New Opportunities in an Old Disease
Translation (CORT) on Gout and Hyperuricemia (Kenneth
pharmaceutical treatments for gout in the last 5 years and
Saag, MD, MSc, and S. Louis Bridges Jr, MD, PhD,
the publication of high quality epidemiological and clinical
principal investigators). Projects will focus on the effect of
studies have renewed interest in gout research.”
hyperuricemia on blood pressure, effectiveness and safety of
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