Gout and Rheumatoid Arthritis.

 by Rusty Ford

People with rheumatoid arthritis can develop gout. There is a long standing myth that people with rheumatoid arthritis can not develop gout. This has long been known not to be true by most in the medical community. A new study of 813 rheumatoid arthritis patients over a 27 year period of time shows that they can indeed develop gout but at a lower rate than the rest of the population. One of the difficulties with RA patients is many times gout flare ups are seen as RA flare ups. Rusty Ford Editor http://arthritis-symptom.com/