Prevalence of co-existing autoimmune disease in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a cross-sectional study

• Main Authors: Teresa A. Simon (Author), Gowri Priya Harikrishnan (Author), Hugh Kawabata (Author), Sanket Singhal (Author), Hermine I. Brunner (Author), Daniel J. Lovell (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Many autoimmune diseases share common pathogenic mechanisms, cytokine pathways and systemic inflammatory cascades; however, large studies quantifying the co-existence of autoimmune diseases in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) have not been conducted. Methods We p...