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Positive association of tomato consumption with serum urate: support for tomato consumption as an anecdotal trigger of gout flares

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, August 2015
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Title
Positive association of tomato consumption with serum urate: support for tomato consumption as an anecdotal trigger of gout flares
Published in
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12891-015-0661-8
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Tanya J Flynn, Murray Cadzow, Nicola Dalbeth, Peter B Jones, Lisa K Stamp, Jennie Harré Hindmarsh, Alwyn S Todd, Robert J Walker, Ruth Topless, Tony R Merriman

Abstract

Gout is a consequence of an innate immune reaction to monosodium urate crystals deposited in joints. Acute gout attacks can be triggered by dietary factors that are themselves associated with serum urate levels. Tomato consumption is an anecdotal trigger of gout flares. This study aimed to measure the frequency of tomato consumption as a self-reported trigger of gout attacks in a large New Zealand sample set, and to test the hypothesis that tomato consumption is associated with serum urate levels. Two thousand fifty one New Zealanders (of Māori, Pacific Island, European or other ancestry) with clinically-ascertained gout were asked about gout trigger foods. European individuals from the Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities (ARIC; n = 7517) Study, Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS; n = 2151) and Framingham Heart Study (FHS; n = 3052) were used to test, in multivariate-adjusted analyses, for association between serum urate and tomato intake. Seventy one percent of people with gout reported having ≥1 gout trigger food. Of these 20 % specifically mentioned tomatoes, the 4(th) most commonly reported trigger food. There was association between tomato intake and serum urate levels in the ARIC, CHS and FHS combined cohort (β = 0.66 μmolL(-1) increase in serum urate per additional serve per week; P = 0.006) - evident in both sexes (men: β = 0.84 μmolL(-1), P = 0.035; women: β = 0.59 μmolL (-1), P = 0.041). While our descriptive and observational data are unable to support the claim that tomato consumption is a trigger of gout attacks, the positive association between tomato consumption and serum urate levels suggests that the self-reporting of tomatoes as a dietary trigger by people with gout has a biological basis.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 66 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 17 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 12%
Researcher 8 12%
Student > Master 7 10%
Student > Postgraduate 5 7%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 18 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 14 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 7%
Psychology 3 4%
Other 11 16%
Unknown 22 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 124. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 June 2023.
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#337,863
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#1
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