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Is it possible that gout can cause blood clots?

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From my days in the pharmaceutical industry where we made drugs for PE, the thrombus doesn’t often form in the lungs but travels there from the circulation (often the leg veins).

It seems that there is evidence that high levels of uric acid do increase the prevalence of thrombotic episodes:

nature.com/articles/srep26541

Steve

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