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)...

Parenting and autonomy were examined as psychosocial predictors of quality of life among adolescents with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA). Twenty-four adolescents diagnosed with JRA and their parents participated in the study. Adolescents and parents were interviewed separately to assess the child’s general and JRA-related autonomy, parenting style of parent(s), and the child’s general and ...

A substantial amount of work has gone into elucidating the non-HLA genetic associations in JRA. In this paper, we attempt to provide an overview of this body of knowledge. Direct comparison of the different studies is difficult. Different ethnic populations, different JRA/JIA subgroups, and different systems of nomenclature and classification all impose various limitations. Adding to the comple...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relations of the family environment to adjustment to juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), and to examine how those relations are influenced by child sex and age. METHOD Ninety-four children with JRA completed a questionnaire on family environment and adjustment. RESULTS Family cohesion was related to good adjustment, whereas family conflict was related to poor adjus...

While the long-term outlook of JRA varies with different forms of the disease, over 1/3 of children in general will have active disease that persists into their adult lives, while the remainder experience a remission by the time they reach adulthood. Moreover, 30-50% of patients experience significant limitations in daily functioning 10 years after the onset of their disease. For these reasons,...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the visual outcome and postoperative complications of cataract surgery with posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation in children with uveitis. DESIGN A multicenter, retrospective, interventional case series. The setting included 3 medical centers in Israel. The interventions were cataract surgery and intraocular lens implantation. Aggressive preoperative and posto...

Air temperature (Tair) is critical to modeling environmental processes (e.g. snow/glacier melting) in high-elevation areas of the Tibetan Plateau (TP). To resolve issue that Tair observations are scarce TP western part and at high elevation, many studies have estimated daily air temperatures by using MODIS land surface (LST) various reanalysis datasets. These estimates however inadequate for su...

Serum amyloid protein (SAA) levels were determined by radioimmunoassay in 90 children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA). Significantly higher levels of SAA were present in children with the polyarticular and systemic forms of the disease. SAA levels correlate with disease activity, increasing during acute exacerbations, decreasing during remission and in patients having prednisone therap...

Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are the primary mechanism for mid-latitude water vapor transport, and identified by a key variable, integrated transport (IVT). The ability of atmospheric reanalyses in providing ground-truth dataset IVT field is assessed comparing ERA5, MERRA-2, JRA-55 data against large sample (>1,700) dropsonde profiles deployed around ARs. Bias error increase with magnitude, althoug...

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) leads to significant morbidity due to continued disease activity and drug toxicity. Retrospective analysis of patients with JRA seen at a tertiary care hospital between 1990-2000 was done. Data regarding the type of onset, course of disease, joints involved, treatment received, drug toxicity and outcome at last visit were retrieved from case records. There we...