Once you have gout, you have it for life. Gout, like hypertension and diabetes, is a chronic disease. But do not be afraid of gout, because gout is the only disease that can reach clinical cure in terms of rheumatology. The basis of gout is hyperuricemia. If patients insist on long-term life interventions and taking uric acid-lowering drugs to keep the blood uric acid level below 360umol/L, as long as they can achieve the uric acid standard for a long time, then gout will not recur or progress, and the said clinical cure will be achieved. However, if patients are not able to correctly understand the disease of gout and do not standardize and actively treat it, it may turn into chronic gout, leading to joint deformity, kidney damage, and in serious cases, it can even be life-threatening.