Consumption of soft drinks containing fructose or sugar may cause the sharp increase in gout, not only in obesity and type 2 diabetes, according to a report discussed during the annual meeting of the British Society for Rheumatology.
Traditional treatment for the prevention of gout used to emphasize limiting the consumption of purine-rich food because of the uric acid in them. In this report, fructose was also implicated in the increase of gout indirectly. The process was explained by a rheumatologist from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. The process involves the breakdown of adenosine triphosphate to adenosine monophosphate.
