Objectives. Increased prevalence of familial autoimmune disease is a common finding among
probands with various autoimmune disorders. Autistic disorder (autism) is a highly genetic …

… Reprint requests: SL Bowyer, MD, Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Hospital/National …
White, MD, for helping to get this paper started, and Brian Bowyer, Judy Franconi, and …

… Bowyer, MD: Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis. Address correspondence
to Lisa G. Rider, MD, Environmental Autoimmunity Group, National Institute of Environmental …

Sixty steroid-treated patients with asthma were evaluated for the presence of muscle
weakness by use of both manual muscle testing and the Cybex II isokinetic dynamometer. The …

Objective To develop, validate, and determine the measurement characteristics of a
quantitative tool for assessing the severity of muscle involvement in children with idiopathic …

OBJECTIVE. Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) often presents with musculoskeletal concerns
such as pain or swelling, even before appearance of blasts in the peripheral blood. Such …

Objective Statins reduce atherosclerosis and cardiovascular morbidity in the general
population, but their efficacy and safety in children and adolescents with systemic lupus …

Objective To use juvenile dermatomyositis (DM) survey data and expert opinion to develop
a small number of consensus treatment protocols, which reflect current initial treatment of …

Objective. To determine the reliability, content validity, and responsiveness of physician
global assessments of disease activity and damage in the juvenile idiopathic inflammatory …

OBJECTIVE: To describe the health and functional status of children with juvenile rheumatoid
arthritis (JRA) diagnosed in the early 1990s. METHODS: Patients were obtained from the …