Beware this underrecognised comorbidity in patients with gout
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The treatment of gout is considered suboptimal, despite the availability of efficacious urate-lowering therapies.
Some research shows low rates of prescription of the therapy and there’s also evidence from a range of studies that between 10% and 46% of patients with a prescription fail to adhere to their medication.