Management strategy | Total N=22 | Historical setting N=3a | Modern-day setting N=19 | Example |
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Dietary management | 8/22, 36% | 3/3, 100% | 5/19, 26% | Doctor: “What you need to do is quit pumping your boy full of purine-rich foods.” (King of the Hill, S3Ep18, Fox Network) |
Analgesia | 7/22, 32% | 0, 0% | 7/19, 37% | Howard Wolowitz: “I gave her enough pain meds to choke a … well, her.” (The Big Bang Theory, S7Ep9, CBS) |
NSAIDs | 3/22, 14% | 0, 0% | 3/19, 16% | Dr Brenner: “Well, gout usually responds better to aspirin” (Off the Map, S1Ep10, ABC) |
Urate-lowering therapy | 1/22, 5% | 0, 0% | 1/19, 5% | Dr Ellingham: “allopurinol … that’s a long-term solution.” (Doc Martin, S8Ep7, ITV) |
Serum urate monitoring | 1/22, 5% | 0, 0% | 1/19, 5% | Dr Ellingham: “test your blood to see if you’d benefit from allopurinol” (Doc Martin, S8Ep7, ITV) |