Predictors of Disease Activity in Patients With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis at 12 and 24 Months After Diagnosis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Identification of characteristics associated with active disease in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) could inform early disease treatment strategies. This study evaluated characteristics associated with active disease at 12 and 24 months after JIA diagnosis in the era in which biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) became available for JIA.

Methods

This single-center retrospective study from 2004 through 2018 assessed characteristics associated with active nonsystemic categories of JIA at 12 and 24 months after diagnosis. Relative prevalence (RP) of disease activity was evaluated in relation to prespecified characteristics. Using RP, the effect of increasing biologic DMARD availability on these predictors was assessed at 12 months.

Results

SUBMITTER: Balay-Dustrude E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11319918 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature