8 Famous People With Gout - Article Health

Gout cases rising
Gout may seem like a quaint historical ailment that no one gets anymore, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Jared Leto
Jared Leto, age 45, is an actor best known for movies like Dallas Buyers Club, Fight Club and Requiem for a Dream.

David Wells
This left-handed pitcher has played for the New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays and has struggled with gout throughout his baseball career.

Maurice Cheeks
Maurice Cheeks is a stereotype-destroying gout patient. A super-fit athlete who played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association, Cheeks started to struggle with excruciating gout pain when he was 46 and coaching the Portland Trail Blazers.

Harry Kewell
Harry Kewell, an Australian professional soccer player, was 27 when he was diagnosed with gout while playing in the 2006 World Cup. (Or not playing—a gout flare kept him out of the game.)

Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin, the 18th century Renaissance man, discovered electricity, invented bifocals, was one of the founding fathers of the United States—and had gout.

Sir Isaac Newton
In 1725, Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist, experienced gout attacks in both his feet, just two years before his death.

Samuel Johnson
British author and poet Samuel Johnson (1709 to 1784) suffered from what he and his doctors labeled as gout, beginning in 1775, when he was 65.


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