Do you ever taper or stop urate lowering therapy in patients who have had no gout flares and serum urate persistently below 6 mg/dl?

Part 1: Yes, but not often.

Part 2: No, or extremely rarely.

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Urate lowering therapy (ULT) mobilizes monosodium urate (MSU) deposits and in time will resolve all of the clinical features of gout. The formation of these deposits results from sustained serum uric acid (SUA) elevations in excess...