Gout diagnoses have doubled since 1990. It affects 1 in 40 adults in the UK, mainly men aged between 30 and 60 ...

Gout usually comes on without a cause. But it can be brought on by drinking alcohol (especially beer) or eating seafood and red meat. Taking certain medicines, such as diuretics or aspirin, also can ...

The hypothesis that diuretics induce gout has generally been accepted, despite a lack of evidence from published studies. A Dutch study has now found that diuretics do not increase a patient's ...

but any surgical procedure that you can develop an acute gout attack. One of the primary recommendations for initial treatment of high blood pressure is a diuretic—a water pill called ...