Coffee can reduce risk of gout in women

Mahalo, rochart. I didn't formulate my comment very well. I meant to say that suggesting that coffee would benefit insulin or uric acid levels only in women seemed curious to me.

Yes, more studies would be interesting. :-)

IMO, some aspects not mentioned in the article may apply as well:

#1 Nurses who didn't drink much during their shifts may have had a liquid deficit, thus the chance of uric acid building 'gout' crystals increases.

#2 Nurses who drank a lot of coffee during their shifts got the 'benefits' of the diuretic effect of coffee, thus diluting the present uric acid and faster discharging. Then, there is a lesser chance of the build-up of gout crystals.

#3 Females may have a genetic predispostion. I'm not an expert on medicine but it's statistically evident that females don't drink that much liquid as males do.

#4 Therefore, it makes sense to 'demand' an individual liquid consumption of at least 2 litres (34 fl oz US) daily, simply to avoid gout by water deficit.

Josh, I thought of some of those as well, when I was reading the article. Diet plays a significant role, too. If the nurses ate ate a more or less purine containing diet, that would mean more or less uric acid to be eliminated. There are a lot of things that could affect a study like this.

Right, CL1 - that is why coffee may only one 'tiny factor' in this whole gout investigation. Right, too - lesser purine intake results in lesser concentration of ammonia related products, such as uric acid.

But on the other hand, concentration (c) seems to be a simple key issue here. c= n/v (n...moles uric acid vs. v....volume of liquid in litres)

Reduce the moles of uric acid by reducing the purin (proteine) intake and increase the moles of water (liquid) by more daily drinking, thus you can reduce 'c' and therefore the chance of developing 'gout'. Other issues may be factored in. But this is just a common sense approach.

I think so, too, regarding common-sense. I've only done minimal reading about it, and, oddly, I thought one of the sources stated it was a disease more common to men .. but I could be wrong on that. I do remember mention in the sources I read that this is sometimes an indicator of heart disease (or hardening of the arteries) as was mentioned in this article. My grandfather that had gout also had heart problems. I still think that many diseases can't be easily assessed by control groups; there are just so many variables, differences, predispositions, etc... imo.