Uric arthritis or gout is a rheumatic disease caused by a disorder of uric acid transport in the body. The disease is characterized by increased amounts of uric acid and its reduced secretion from the body, and which causes retention of uric acid in the blood and deposition in the form of salts in different places in the body. Uric arthritis is most commonly hereditary disease, inherited is a tendency toward the creation of increased amounts of uric acid and its reduced extraction from the body.
Occasionally increased amount of uric acid in the blood does not mean at the same time the disease. Small and transient increase of uric acid in the blood is often caused by inappropriate food or taking certain medications, and only in about 5% of the cases it leads to the development of disease. In addition, the finding of increased amounts of uric acid in the blood during childhood does not necessarily mean that it will later come to the development of disease. Because, besides hereditary tendencies, and other diseases for which there has been damage to kidney function, diet and life in general is also associated with the emergence and development of uric arthritis.
Often, uric arthritis as a disease for a long time is not noticed, though there is an increased generation of uric acid and its retention in the body. Usually the first signs of uric arthritis occur only after the fortieth year of life, and disease very rarely occurs in children and before the 25th year of life.
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