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Table 2 Comparison of data

From: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis in two tertiary centres in the Western Cape, South Africa

Study

Morocco4

Turkey6

Printo2W. Europe

Printo2E. Europe

Printo2Latin America

India5

South Africa

N

80

196

2102

668

397

235

78

Age current

10.85*

8.8*

9.4*

11.4*

10.7*

 

13(12.4*)

Age at onset

7.53*

7.0*

5.4*

6.8*

6.6*

12

8(7.3*)

Female

59%

47%

83%

72%

68%

41.7%

50%

Systemic

26%

15.3%

16.4%

23%

28.5%

8%

7.69%

Polyarthritis

31.5%

37.2%

32%

33%

40.6%

29%

40.9%

Poly RF+

 

6.6%

   

12%

14%

Poly RF-

 

30.6%

   

17%

26.9%

Oligo Persistent

37,5%

24.4%

29.5%

31.6%

21.9%

17%

21.8%

Oligo extended

5%

9.6%

21.5%

12%

9%

4%

5%

ERA

 

10.3%

   

36%

23%

Psoriatic

 

1%

   

1%

1.28%

Undifferentiated

 

2.5%

   

5%

 

VAS pain(mm)

28.4*

 

28*

23*

27*

 

18(24.9*)

VAS general(mm)

  

25*

28*

24*

 

25(28.4*)

Limited joints

1.78*

 

5.9*

8.6*

10.1*

 

2(6.51*)

Active joints

4.39*

 

5.3*

6.7*

7.1*

 

2(3.85*)

CHAQ

0.84*

 

0.7*

0.6*

0.8*

 

0.5(0.73*)

ESR

28*

 

30.7*

27.7*

31.2*

 

14 (25.1*)

  1. Median values represented unless * marks mean value.