Jointly sponsored by Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University and Taiwan Kaohsiung University and co-sponsored by Peking University Third Hospital, The Fourth East Gout Forum was held on August 30 to 31 in Beijing. Qiao Jie, president of Peking University Third Hospital, attended the forum and made an opening speech. Professor Liu Xiangyuan, director of Rheumatology and Immunology Department in Peking University Third Hospital, served as the executive chairman. The forum attracted a total of 455 medicine colleagues from America, Japan and all over the country. Zhao Jinxia, vice director of Rheumatology and Immunology Department in Peking University Third Hospital, shared the investigation and analysis about the gout patients’ usage of uric acid lowering drugs and condition of uric acid.

Translated by LIAO Meixia, Proof by LI Mengran & ZHAO Yingxi