summary gout is a common painful form of arthritis it causes swollen red hot and stiff joints gout happens when uric acid builds up in your body uric acid comes from the breakdown of substances called purines purines are in your body s tissues and in foods such as liver dried beans and peas and anchovies
Systemic diseases that affect the kidneys are called secondary causes of nephrotic syndrome. More than 50 percent of nephrotic syndrome cases in adults have secondary causes, with diabetes being the most common.1.
1 On rare cases, pinworms infecting the kidney can also cause nephropathy. 2  Nontraditional causes of CKD (CKDu) are denoted if the common causes of CKD are not present: 3  CKD of unknown etiology is the subject of a major study by the Sri Lanka Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization 2009â2012.