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-Frequency of the words 'gout' (blue) and 'arthritis' (red) found in bibliographic sources printed between 1700 and 2012 (allowed chronological extreme) using the online search engine Google Books Ngram Viewer.
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Recognised since antiquity, gout is still a relevant pathology with rising prevalence and incidence. This study aims to assess the reference accuracy in journal articles mentioning the early use of the word ‘gout’. Specifically, it investigates whether the term was indeed coined in the 13th century by the Dominican monk Randolphus of Bocking, as wi...
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... in the past thirty years, the global population of gouty patients has increased from 2 million to 53 million individuals, with a growth rate for gout incidence equalling 63.44% (2). The perceived disappearance of gout may partly be ascribed to better diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in the contemporary medical setting as well as to a diminished moral focus on this condition, which is closely matched by a contextual progressive decrease in bibliometric mentions of the very word during the last three centuries ( Figure 1). Reasonably, the latter phenomenon might also be explained in the light of the relatively recent rise of the more technical term 'arthritis' (originating around the 1540s from its Latin equivalent and preceded by the late 14 th -century form 'arthetica'), which is common to many conditions such as 'osteoarthritis', 'rheumatoid arthritis', 'juvenile arthritis', etc. ...
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