{"id":43933,"date":"2015-03-03T16:49:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T08:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=43933"},"modified":"2015-03-03T16:49:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T08:49:44","slug":"1-6-m-filipinos-afflicted-with-gout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/03\/1-6-m-filipinos-afflicted-with-gout\/","title":{"rendered":"1.6 M Filipinos afflicted with gout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_234906949.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43934\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_234906949.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_234906949\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_234906949.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_234906949-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Philippine Rheumatology Association (PRA) recently said that 1.6 million Filipinos are suffering from gout, a painful and potentially debilitating type of inflammatory arthritis.<\/p>\n<p>PRA president Eric Amante said at the launch of the PRA Gout Awareness Campaign that this number is expected to increase in the coming years, as a result of the unhealthy lifestyle choices \u2013 such as alcohol consumption and eating foods high in purine \u2013 of many Filipinos; particularly Filipino males.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s 1.6 million but if you look at the prevalence in the Philippines, it\u2019s increasing in the past two decades. We have a lot of young breadwinners who have gout and I think it is very important to remember that this is a chronic illness,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Amante noted that although gout is not fatal, it is extremely painful, and could affect one\u2019s quality of life, as well as lead to depression, interfere with work, and cause many other health complications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe encourage the public to visit a rheumatologist, aside from their usual physicians. Gout can be controlled easily with medication and proper treatment and diet. We can normalize the uric acid,\u201d Amante encouraged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine Rheumatology Association (PRA) recently said that 1.6 million Filipinos are suffering from gout, a painful and potentially debilitating &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":43934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-health","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}