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Looking at the patient's red and swollen big toe, I couldn't help but ask him, "Did you have a big meal yesterday? Or did you drink beer? This looks like a gout attack."

Gout is a disease caused by the accumulation of uric acid in the body and is common in middle-aged men and postmenopausal women. However, due to the general improvement in living standards of modern people, the age of onset is getting younger and younger.

Gout is a common but easily overlooked metabolic disease, mainly caused by high uric acid concentration in the blood, which forms crystals in the joints, leading to an acute inflammatory response and causing severe pain and swelling.