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Hyperuricemia and gout are multifarious disorders of purine metabolism with heredity as genetic base and exogenic environmental factors which are prevailing of alimentary nature including overcaloric and fatty nutrition and alcohol consumption. These latter factors may be able to induce the manifestation of clinical gout.
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Frank, O. (1977). Nutritional State and Purine Metabolism. In: Müller, M.M., Kaiser, E., Seegmiller, J.E. (eds) Purine Metabolism in Man—II. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 76B. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3285-5_39
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