My doctor mentioned a 20% chance of uveitis among all JIA patients. If the patient has common characteristics such as young female and ANA positive, what does the probability of uveitis occurrence increase to for this subgroup?
Our Canadian research, looking at over 1,000 children newly diagnosed with JIA, has shown that the most important contributors to probability of uveitis are a positive ANA and being diagnosed at a young age. Uveitis was most commonly seen in children with either oligoarthritis or polyarticular rheumatoid factor negative JIA. We also saw that [...]
