Nutritional recommendations for gout: An update from clinical epidemiology.

Abstract in brief

• Most current guidelines suggest that gout patients should limit alcohol consumption, lose weight if overweight, and reduce fructose intake, although the evidence supporting these recommendations is generally of low to very low quality.
• A recent systematic review of weight loss in gout patients showed that losing weight can have beneficial effects, especially in overweight and obese individuals, but the quality of this evidence remains moderate to low.
• Based on these findings, researchers are designing a new randomized trial to better understand the short-term effects of diet-induced weight loss on gout management in obese patients.