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 LenPublished 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.