OBJECTIVE: To determine the disease course and outcome in a multicenter cohort of
patients with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA). METHODS: All patients with JRA seen at 3 …

Rationale Acute lower respiratory infection (ALRI) is one of the most common reasons for
hospitalization and intensive care unit admission among children. Season related decreases in …

Background Vitamin D has been implicated in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases.
While the roles of vitamin D in other autoimmune diseases have been investigated, less is …

Objective To describe clinical outcomes of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) in a prospective
inception cohort of children managed with contemporary treatments. Methods Children newly …

While popular belief harbors little doubt that perceived stress can cause hair loss and premature
graying, the scientific evidence for this is arguably much thinner. Here, we investigate …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of rheumatic diseases in children, and the frequency
of musculoskeletal disorders seen by pediatric rheumatology specialists in Canada. …

Objective: We examined the feasibility of Dance Dance Revolution (DDR), a dance video
game, in participants' homes, to increase physical activity (PA) and to decrease sedentary …

… Three of 7 children with Reiter’s syndrome reported by Singsen et a1 (17) and 1 of 3 reported
by Rosenberg and Petty (18) had enthesopathic signs. Grokcest et al, in their review of 110 …

Objectives Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a heterogeneous group of conditions unified
by the presence of chronic childhood arthritis without an identifiable cause. Systemic JIA (sJIA…

The brain and behavior are under energetic constraints, limited by mitochondrial energy
transformation capacity. However, the mitochondria-behavior relationship has not been …