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“Daily drinks of cherry juice concentrate could help thousands of patients beat gout,” the Mail on Sunday reports.
This headline is based on a small study that found drinking tart cherry juice twice a day temporarily lowered the blood uric acid levels of 12 young healthy volunteers for up to eight hours after they consumed the drink. This is of potential interest, as high levels of uric acid can lead to crystals forming inside joints, which triggers the onset of the painful condition gout.
Somewhat puzzlingly, the study recruited healthy young volunteers who didn’t have gout. A more relevant study design would have included people with a history of gout, to see what effect, if any, cherry juice had on them.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/09September/Pages/Cherry-juice-touted-as-treatment-for-gout.aspx
This headline is based on a small study that found drinking tart cherry juice twice a day temporarily lowered the blood uric acid levels of 12 young healthy volunteers for up to eight hours after they consumed the drink. This is of potential interest, as high levels of uric acid can lead to crystals forming inside joints, which triggers the onset of the painful condition gout.
Somewhat puzzlingly, the study recruited healthy young volunteers who didn’t have gout. A more relevant study design would have included people with a history of gout, to see what effect, if any, cherry juice had on them.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/09September/Pages/Cherry-juice-touted-as-treatment-for-gout.aspx
