Dear Colleagues,
I have been assigned a very interesting project to use our GIS system to map out the demographics of US citizens who have the disease called gout. This project will last several months, and so I will be coming back often to update you on this interesting project.
The first round of demographics includes sending out a survey to gout sufferers to ask several questions, such as these examples:
- Do you know what a purine is?
- Do you know which foods contain high levels of purines?
- Are you on a low purine diet?
For any of our GIS readers who are unfamiliar with gout, purines are naturally occurring chemicals in certain foods that lead to a flair up of gout attacks, because of their break down into uric acid.
Stay tuned for more updates on this project!
TARPOGIS