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                                    Vol 49 No. 1 - Chronic Disease Management 2023
                                
                            
                        
                    
                    Initiation of Urate Lowering Therapy (ULT)
                            
                                
                                    The Singapore Family Physician
                                    Vol 49
                                    No 1
                                    - Chronic Disease Management 2023
                                
                            
                        
                    
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                                    - 27
                                
                            
                        
                                
                                    1 January 2023
                                
                            
                        
                                0377-5305
                            
                        Mr Tan, 60, a smoker with diabetes mellitus (DM), hypertension and chronic kidney disease (CKD) Stage 3, and recurrent gout flares last five weeks of increasing intensity and duration. He assumes it is due to frequent travel and lack of exercise. He comes today for routine review of his chronic diseases. Current laboratory results are creatinine 106, eGFR 56, uric acid 490, HbA1c 7.3%, random hypocount 8.5 mmol/L.  He is on glipizide 5mg bd, Metformin 250mg BD, Amlodipine 5mg OM.  He complains of severe gout pain.  He had always been reluctant to start definitive treatment which you had previously mentioned.  What will you do next?
                        