Types of People at Risk Taxable Uric Acid

There is an assumption that uric acid is a disease of the rich, whose life is so rare all-round good sport. But in fact, disease
This can affect anyone. Anyone prone to uric acid?

There are several things that could be identified as risk factors for gout attacks or also called gout. Some characteristics of people who have suffered an attack of gout risk factors such as quoted EmedTV, Tuesday (01/08/2011) is as follows.
1. Man
Uric acid is often considered a male disease. This assumption is true, because women produce more estrogen hormone that can prevent formation of uric acid. Approximately 98 percent of uric acid attacks on women occurred only at the age of menopause.

2. Seafood Enthusiasts
Gout is an inflammatory disease triggered by the crystallization of uric acid (uric acid). This acid is a purine metabolic waste, which is a natural compound found in some foods, such as organ meats and seafood.


3. Alcohol drinkers
Besides food, certain types of beverages are also rich in purine. One of them is the alcoholic liquor.

4. The owner of body fat
More tissue in obese people make the process of decomposition of purines into uric acid more quickly, so easy to be congested. If not balanced with plenty of drinking water, the risk for gout disease will be higher.

5. Family gout sufferers
Family history is one risk factor for gout attacks. About 18 percent of gout patients have a history of similar illness in one member of his family, either from parents or grandparents.

Some well-known figures are also known to have a history of gout, as quoted by Health.com, on Tuesday (01/08/2011) is as follows.

1. Harry Kewell (soccer player)
Soccer player from Australia who also had bet on English Premier League, Harry Kewell's gout was diagnosed at the age of 27 years. Because of that illness, he was forced to leave the squad for Australia's national team who was competing in the 2006 World Cup.

2. English King Henry VIII (Royalty)
Henry VIII who ruled England between the years 1491-1547 has a distended stomach and in his paintings is always depicted holding a meat and a glass of wine. Unhealthy life style is what makes Henry VIII often experience inflammation of uric acid, and gave birth to the myth of uric acid as the disease of kings.

3. Benjamin Franklin (Statesman)
One of the founding father or father of the founder of the United States (U.S.), Benjamin Franklin was a patient of uric acid. Statesman who also found the electrical conductors and glasses are some times absent in the trial formulation of the U.S. declaration of independence, because of relapse uratnya acid.


4. Sir Isaac Newton (Scientist)
The British scientist Sir Isaac Newton had gout attacks in both legs in 1725 or only 2 years before he died. Isaac Newton was known by various findings in the field of physics and mathematics, one of them is the theory of gravity.

5. Samuel Johnson (Poet)
English poet of the 18th century, Samuel Johnson suffered from severe gout in 1775 when he had reached 65 years. In one of literature when he describes his condition was so severe recurrent, but he never felt a pain in the body is higher than the ankle.

6. Maurice Cheeks (former basketball player)
Former NBA player, Maurice Cheeks didagnosis suffering gout at the age of 46 years at a club coach the Portland Trail Blazers. Yet in its heyday, Maurice 55-year-old who is now known to be very fit to be able to compete for 15 seasons in professional basketball competition.

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