Authors
Timothy Beukelman, Nivedita M Patkar, Kenneth G Saag, Sue Tolleson‐Rinehart, Randy Q Cron, Esi Morgan DeWitt, Norman T Ilowite, Yukiko Kimura, Ronald M Laxer, Daniel J Lovell, Alberto Martini, C Egla Rabinovich, Nicolino Ruperto
Publication date
2011/4
Source
Arthritis care & research
Volume
63
Issue
4
Pages
465-482
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Description
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is defined by the International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR) as arthritis of unknown etiology that begins before the sixteenth birthday and persists for at least 6 weeks with other known conditions excluded (1). JIA is one of the more common chronic diseases of childhood, with a prevalence of approximately 1 per 1,000 (2, 3). JIA often persists into adulthood and can result in significant long-term morbidity, including physical disability (4–9). Recent major
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