An Analysis of the Influencing Factors of Gout

Gout is an inflammatory disease that is linked to uric acid disturbance. This kind of metabolic disease is also thought of as a type of arthritis. This paper studies the factors causing gout, analyzes the results based on existing literature and research results, and discusses the two possible factors, lifestyle factors and genetic factors, which may take responsibility for the cause of gout. In this paper, diet and fitness are included in lifestyle factors. The influences of a high-purine food like seafood and alcohol are mentioned in the diet part with a high-fat and high-sugar diet. In the fitness part, the BMI and the exercise factor are linked with the cause rate of gout to analyze the relationship between them. For the genetic part, two genetic factors, SLC22A12 and SLC2A9, are analyzed for the cause of gout. Finally, the conclusion is that gout isnt only caused by the lifestyle of people or genetic factors. The bad daily lifestyles, like unhealthy daily diets and little exercise, accumulated together with the genetic factors. Then, consequently, they cause gout, which means they both have an effect on the formation of gout.