Gout is a common medical condition, being the main cause of inflammatory arthropathy in adult men. The main factors involved in the increased prevalence of this disease, observed in the two last decades, include: use of diuretics and low dose aspirin, chronic renal insufficiency, hypertension, obesity, and metabolic syndrome. Among the causes of hyperuricemia seen in patients with gout is the dietary ingestion of purines. The association between a high-protein diet, purine-rich foods, and alcoholic beverages with hyperuricemia and gout, until very recently, lack adequate scientific documentation. Based on the most recently publications on this subject, the present article brings an actualization about the most adequate dietary orientation for patients with gout.
Gout; dietary orientation; alcoholic beverages
