Factors influencing adherence to treatment of patients with primary gout (literature review)

Abstract

The study presents an overview of modern domestic and foreign literary sources covering the issue of adherence to therapy for patients with gout. Despite the fact that at the present stage of development of medical science, gout is well studied, it remains one of the diseases with the worst level of adherence to treatment. This is due to a number of factors both on the part of the patient and on the part of the organization of medical control over patients, and may also be due to both psychological characteristics that distinguish patients with gout, and the peculiarities of the course of this severe metabolic disease. Low adherence to urate-lowering therapy leads to the chronization of the disease, a decrease in the quality and duration of life. With a good awareness of doctors about the factors affecting adherence to gout and timely informing patients about the peculiarities of diet, lifestyle, and most importantly – the need and possibilities of constant urate-lowering therapy, all of them are amenable to correction and make it possible to effectively control the disease.

Keywords

• primary gout
• adherence to treatment
• urate-lowering therapy