Gout is rising faster among women than men and researchers now think that diet has a lot to do with it.

A large prospective study has found that regularly consuming foods known to increase bodily inflammation is linked to a doubling of women’s risk of incident gout — but is associated with only a 34% increased risk for men.

When BMI was taken into account, the strength of the association dropped slightly to 71% for women and 24% for men but remained statistically significant.

“These findings support the deleterious role of diet-related chronic inflammation in relation to gout onset, particularly among women whose gout burden is rising disproportionately to men,” the authors wrote in Arthritis and Rheumatology.