Gout patients often have such questions: I have had gout for some years. When I don’t go to the hospital to see a doctor, I also came here to take painkillers myself. How can the doctor prescribe so many examinations for me as soon as I go to the hospital? Today’s article is to solve everyone’s doubts and let patients know what tests doctors will do when evaluating gout. 1. Detection of serum uric acid In previous articles, we mentioned many times that high uric acid is the basic condition for causing gout attacks, so the determination of blood uric acid is very important for the diagnosis and evaluation of gout and the evaluation of the therapeutic effect of lowering Read More …