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Prevalence of juvenile idiopathic arthritis in schoolchildren from the city of São Paulo, the largest city in Latin America.

Vânia SchinzelSimone Guerra Lopes da SilvaMaria Teresa TerreriClaudio Arnaldo Len
Published in: Advances in rheumatology (London, England) (2019)
In this first Brazilian population study to evaluate the prevalence of JIA, we observed that the disease is relatively prevalent in our country (196 / 100.000 children), which is similar to that observed in other studies involving children from urban centers.
Keyphrases
  • juvenile idiopathic arthritis
  • young adults
  • risk factors
  • disease activity
  • systemic lupus erythematosus