If you have gout, high uric acid buildup can lead to more attacks. Over time, gout attacks can become more severe, last longer, and affect one or more joints. To help reduce future gout attacks, it's important to lower your uric acid to a healthy level (less than 6 mg/dL).

Lower uric acid helps gout attacks over time.

Learn how uric acid affects your body. Then, work with your healthcare professional to help control it.

About Uloric

ULORIC vs. Allopurinol

With ULORIC 80 mg, 70% of Patients Reacheda Healthy Uric Acid Level (<6 mg/dL).*

Clinical studies comparing ULORIC and allopurinol for the treatment of gout found that:

*Based on results combined across three phase 3 studies ranging from 6-12 months; ULORIC 40 mg was only included in one of the studies, and ULORIC 80 mg and allopurinol were included in each of the studies. Individual results may vary.

As many patients on ULORIC 40 mg reached a healthy uric acid level as those on allopurinol.
70% of patients on ULORIC 80 mg reached a healthy uric acid level as those on allopurinol.

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Gout Medication for Lowering High Uric Acid Levels

In patients with gout, ULORIC helps control the underlying cause—high uric acid levels. By lowering uric acid levels, ULORIC helps patients manage their gout. Keeping uric acid at a healthy level (less than 6 mg/dL) is the long-term goal for managing gout and can reduce future gout attacks over time.

Use of ULORIC

ULORIC is a prescription medicine used to lower blood uric acid levels in adults with gout. ULORIC is not for the treatment of high uric acid without a history of gout.

Individual results may vary.

Important Safety Information

Do not take ULORIC if you are taking Azathioprine or Mercaptopurine.

Your gout may flare up when you start taking ULORIC; do not stop taking your ULORIC even if you have a flare. Your healthcare provider may give you other medicines to help prevent your gout flares.

A small number of heart attacks, strokes, and heart-related deaths were seen in clinical studies. It is not certain that ULORIC caused these events.

Tell your healthcare professional about liver or kidney problems or a history of heart disease or stroke.

Your healthcare professional may do blood tests to check your liver function while you are taking ULORIC.

The most common side effects of ULORIC are liver problems, nausea, gout flares, joint pain, and rash.

Please see the complete Prescribing Information and talk to your healthcare professional.

You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088.

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