Schlagwort: psychology

Gout and Depression

Gout is a type of arthritis that causes severe pain, joint redness, and swelling. If left untreated, it might lead to major complications such as high blood pressure, heart attacks, diabetes, kidney difficulties, and obesity. Nowadays, researchers are digging deeper into another challenging problem associated with gout: depression. Even though gout was one of the […]

Gicht und Stigmatisierung

For the longest time, gout was called the “disease of kings” or “the rich man’s disease”. Some even referred to it as “lord of disease and disease of lords”. Back then, it was only royalty and the wealthy who experienced gout because they had the best access to trigger foods such as red meat and […]

Gicht und Stress

Can Stress Actually Cause A Gout Attack? Stress has been around since the beginning of man, as long as there is uncertainty there will be stress unfortunately and it does produce consequences. Not as much to people who are relatively good health as much as to those who have a disease or a condition already. […]

Gicht und Genetik

Do Genetics Play A Role In Gout? Some breaking news hit the newswires this past week about gout and genetics. This coincided with the passing of my father, Angelo Koulouris, who died of a heart attack on November the 7th, 2013 at the age of 58, inside his 1 bedroom apartment. His body was found […]

Gicht und Psychologie

Love, Family and Community You all must be wondering what in the world is Spiro talking about with a title like Love, Family and Community and what in the world does it have to do with gout? It’s the psychological and emotional support that we all need as human beings, that there is someone there […]