URBANBOGOR.com– The results of research on the elderly around the Kemantan health center conducted by Sofia Rizki Wahyunia in 2022 proved that boiled bay leaves are effective in reducing symptoms of gout or gout arthritis.
Symptoms of gout are symptoms of a degenerative disease that often affects the elderly (elderly) which is also known as gout (gout).
Gout Arthritis is an inflammatory disease of the joints. In the community, Gout arthritis is better known as uric acid.
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Uric acid is the result of the breakdown of purines found in the body
in blood and urine.
Generally, everyone has uric acid in the body because every normal metabolism produces uric acid.
However, the amount of uric acid in our body is reasonable and should not be excessive.
A person will be diagnosed with uric acid or gout arthritis when the level of uric acid in his blood is above 7 mg/dl in men and above 5.7 mg/dl in women.
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There have been many studies conducted by researchers who were deployed to find drugs that are effective in reducing the symptoms of gout or gout arthritis.
One of them is research on gout or gout arthritis conducted by Sofia Rizki Wahyuni from the Nursing Science Study Program, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Jambi University.
The aim of Sofia Rizki Wahyuni’s research in 2022 is to find out the effect of boiling bay leaves on reducing uric acid levels in the elderly.
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Research on gout or gout arthritis conducted by Sofia Rizki Wahyuni uses experimental research. This study used a pretest – posttest control group research design.
Subjects in the study of gout or gout arthritis totaled 36 people who were divided into 3 groups, each group consisting of 12 elderly people. The subjects of the research group were named groups R1, R2 and R3.
