Reduced physical activity in children and adolescents with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis despite satisfactory control of inflammation

Table 3 Physical Activity in patients with JIA compared to healthy schoolchildren

Physical Activity (PA)	Patients with JIA	Age- and gender-matched, healthy schoolchildren	p-value^a
	133	In total 1692
Mean cpm	475.6 (SD 178.8)	522.7	0.0000018
Minutes per day with cpm >1500	67.9 (SD 32.3)	76.4	0.0000014
Minutes per day with cpm >2000 (MPA)	48.4 (SD 24.7)	52.8	0.00010
Minutes per day with cpm >3000 (HPA)	24.7 (SD16.3)	26.5	0.00015

PA values were log₁₀ transformed and pairwise compared by The Related-Samples Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test (2-tailed, α = 0.05)
^aComparison of the distributions of PA in patients with JIA and gender- and age-matched healthy schoolchildren

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