I looked up "Gout" on Wickipedia and it says that Gout has become more common in the past few decades affecting 1 -2% of the population. The reasons given were "increasing risk factors" such as 1) metabolic syndrome 2) people living longer and 3) changes in diet.
I believe we can do something about 1 & 3 so it seems to be largely in our comtrol. I think it's "changes in diet" in recent decades that's causing "metabolic syndrome". (Excess weight plus highly inflammatory diets.)
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