Medication use in juvenile uveitis patients enrolled in the Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry

Table 6 Factors associated with biologic agent use in idiopathic uveitis

				Multivariable Logistic Regression
Variable	Biologics	No Biologics	Univariate P value	Odds Ratio	95 % CI	P value
Variable	N = 49	N = 43	Univariate P value	Odds Ratio	95 % CI	P value
Age at onset, yrs			0.35			0.90
Median (IQR)	7.7 (5.1-10.2)	8.9 (6.8-11.4)
Gender			0.21			0.07
Female	24 (49 %)	27 (63 %)
Male	25 (51 %)	16 (37 %)
Ethnicity			0.54			0.92
Hispanic	5 (10 %)	7 (16 %)
Non-Hispanic	44 (90 %)	36 (84 %)
Race			0.20			0.87
Caucasian	35 (73 %)	36 (86 %)
Non-Caucasian	13 (27 %)	6 (14 %)
Uveitis type			0.44			0.82
Anterior	27 (55 %)	30 (70 %)
Pan	13 (27 %)	6 (14 %)
Intermediate	7 (14 %)	5 (12 %)
Posterior	2 (4 %)	2 (5 %)
ANA status			0.07***
Positive	20 (49 %)	10 (29 %)		3.0	1.0-8.6	0.04*
Negative	21 (51 %)	25 (71 %)		Reference
Any complication	39 (81 %)	32 (74 %)	0.46			0.16
Cataracts	26 (53 %)	9 (21 %)	0.002*	5.6	1.8-17.2	0.001*

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