L Martínez Mengual, J M Fernández Menéndez, G Solís Sánchez, M Fernández Díaz, N Fernández González, Serafín Málaga Guerrero
INTRODUCTION: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is one of the most common chronic diseases in children. The results of several epidemiologic studies have shown surprisingly wide variety in the incidence (0.8 to 22.6 per 100,000 children) and prevalence (7 to 400 per 100,000) of this disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We performed a retrospective epidemiological study to identify all patients born after 1989 and resident in Asturias who were diagnosed with JIA using the criteria of the International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR) criteria...
January 2007: Anales de Pediatría: Publicación Oficial de la Asociación Española de Pediatría (A.E.P.)