[Gout in the age (author's transl)].
The importance of the gout is growing in the GDR as its frequency has been increasing since the sixties. The gout is a disease of metabolism with the following accompanying phenomena: renal lesion in gout, hypertension, cardiac diseases and peripheral arterial diseases. Besides, there are proved relations between hyperuricemia and obesity, hyperlipoproteinemia, diabetes mellitus as well as steatosis hepatis. In describing the nature of the gout the peculiarities of age are stressed. The treatment of the gout depends on the clinical state.
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004035:Diet Therapy; D005260:Female; D005859:Germany, East; D006073:Gout / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013577:Syndrome
Gicht im Alter.