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Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common of the paediatric rheumatic diseases. The first of our objective was to describe the disease characteristics, course, long-term outcome and predictors of outcome in the Greek population. The second one was to investigate for the first time whether five genes, found in previous studies to be associated with an increased risk for the development of JIA, are also associated with susceptibility for JIA in the Greek population. The first clinical part of this study was a retrospective longitudinal cohort study. All consecutive patients were included if they were met specific entry criteria. This group of patients were the referral-based cohort. A second group of patients interviewed by telephone consisted the population-based cohort. A total of 102 (72 females-30 males) patients were enrolled. The disease age at onset of disease (median ±SD) was 7±4 years, the interval from onset to last visit 17+6.7 years and the patients’ current age ...
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common of the paediatric rheumatic diseases. The first of our objective was to describe the disease characteristics, course, long-term outcome and predictors of outcome in the Greek population. The second one was to investigate for the first time whether five genes, found in previous studies to be associated with an increased risk for the development of JIA, are also associated with susceptibility for JIA in the Greek population. The first clinical part of this study was a retrospective longitudinal cohort study. All consecutive patients were included if they were met specific entry criteria. This group of patients were the referral-based cohort. A second group of patients interviewed by telephone consisted the population-based cohort. A total of 102 (72 females-30 males) patients were enrolled. The disease age at onset of disease (median ±SD) was 7±4 years, the interval from onset to last visit 17+6.7 years and the patients’ current age 24+5.9 years. Almost, seventy per cent (69.7%) of patients reported no disability while 30.3% had a HAQ-DI score >0. Severe disability was detected in 4.9% of the patients from referral based cohort. Eighty nine patients (87.2%) had damage in > 1 joint or joint group according to JADI A and 59 patients (57.8%) had extra-articular damage. The median+SD total modified Sharp van der Heijde score was 112.5±140. When duration of active disease was summed over each patient’s follow-up, patients spent a mean of 52.7% of their follow-up with active disease. On the other hand, the cumulative mean percent time spent in a state of clinical remission off medication over the entire disease course was 17.6% for the whole cohort. The GHQ-28 depicted impaired psychological status in 18 patients (18.7%). The activity of disease at the last follow up visit was correlated with higher degree of depression and social dysfunction at the same time. Global disease activity rated by the patient was found to be the only significant predictor of psychological distress. Altogether, the available data indicate that JIA is not a benign disease. The second genetic part of this study was a case-control association study. One hundred twenty eight Caucasian JIA patients (70.31% female, 29.69% male), were included. Two hundred and twenty one unrelated healthy individuals served as controls for the genomic typing. Our results provide additional evidence for an association between a TRAF1/C5, a CD247 and a PTPN22 polymorphism and the risk of JIA by independent replication in a Greek population. Considering the lack of association between the STAT4 and PTPN2 SNPs analyzed and JIA, our findings are partially only concordant with previous results in other populations. In conclusion, the present study is the first epidemiological study of adult patients with JIA in Greece and the first study to investigate genetic polymorphisms of disease in a sample of Greek population. It is, to our knowledge, the only study in the literature with such a long disease duration, using the current classification criteria and assessment tools. The results of this study will allow the comparison with those of other future international studies.
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