This study was performed to review reports of the descriptive epidemiology of chronic
arthritis in childhood and to analyze the factors that may explain differences in its reported …

… to assess overweight and obesity issues among children, where BMI = kilogram kg height
in … KGØ. is the supervisor taking part in all the steps from conceptualisation, methodology, …

Thirty-six of the 39 children originally described with the syndrome of seronegative enthesopathy
and arthropathy, followed for a mean of 11 years after symptom onset, were found to …

Objective To determine whether systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) susceptibility loci
that were identified by candidate gene studies demonstrate association with systemic JIA in …

Most of the genetic risk for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is conferred by ‘shared epitope’(SE),
encoding alleles of HLA-DRB1. Specific North American Native (NAN) populations have RA …

The onset patterns and disease courses of children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and
uveitis were reviewed to establish correlations. Results indicated that although the disease …

Objective. To present preliminary data on incidence of malignancy in juvenile idiopathic arthritis
(JIA), compared to general population rates. Methods. We examined cancer occurrence …

OBJECTIVE: This study was undertaken to investigate the recent finding of a seasonal
difference in the onset of systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (SoJRA). We hypothesized …

Background Physical activity (PA) patterns in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)
over time are not well described. The aim of this study was to describe associations of …

For both genetic and environmental reasons the prevalences and characteristics of the
rheumatic diseases affecting North American Indian children might be expected to differ from …