Bone mineral density in patients with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Results There were 37 patients with JRA (33 girls and 4 boys, with a mean age of 12.31 ± 3.29 years) and 20 healthy controls (matched for age and sex ratio with JRA patients) were consecutively recruited in this study between 2005 and 2007. BMD of the calcaneus in the patients with JRA was significantly lower than that in healthy controls ((0.71 ± 0.13) g/cm^2 vs (0.97 ± 0.18) g/cm^2, P < 0.05). Although with the increasing of cumulative dose of steroids, BMD decreased, but there was no significant correlation between cumulative dose of steroids and BMD.
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