Points: Drugs and rheumatoid arthritis

Abstract

Hyperlipidaemia advances and retreats Dr A LEWIS (London WlN 1FJ) writes: How long will it be before the hazards of eating dairy foods (23 August, p 564) are remembered with amusement like those of eating meat. This dangerous stuff (especially red meat) "caused" kidney disease, hypertension, rheumatism, and gout because it was a source of uric acid and urea, with which these conditions were thought to be associated.