Epidemiology of pediatric uveitis and associated systemic diseases

Table 4 Comparison of large studies of pediatric uveitis in other countries

Study	N	Location	Etiology (%)						Anatomic distribution of uveitis (%)
Study	N	Location	Idiopathic^f	JIA	Behçet disease	Kawasaki disease	VKH	Infection	Anterior	Intermediate	Posterior	Panuveitis
Edelsten et al. (2003) [5]	249	UK	44	47	(−)	(−)	(−)	2	70	0	30	0
Kadayifcilar et al. (2003) [12]	219	Turkey	36^a	15.0	11.0	0	0.5	30.1	43.4	11.9	31	13.7
Boer et al. (2003) [13]	123	Netherlands	53.7	20	0	0	0	13.3	36	24	19	21
Rosenberg et al. (2004) [6]	148	USA	41.3^b	23	0.7	0	0.7	24.3	30.4	27.7	23.7	18.2
Benezra et al. (2005) [1]	276	Israel	25.4	15.3	4.7	0	1.1	33.3	13.4	41.7	14.1	30.8
Kump et al. (2005) [14]	269	USA	51.7^c	33.1	0.4	7.4	0.7	5.2	56.9	20.8	6.3	16
Khairallah et al. (2006) [15]	64	Tunisia	49.9	6.2	6.2	0	1.5	25	31.3	31.3	20.3	17.2
Smith et al. (2009) [16]	527	USA	45.9^d	21.6	1.9	0	2.8	11.4	44.6	28	14.4	12.9
Ozdal et al. (2012) [17]	121	Turkey	40.4^e	10.7	16.5	0	0.8	21.5	31.4	25.6	24.8	18.2
Abd El Latif et al. (2019) [18]	413	Egypt	28.6	6.7	6.8	0	1.9	36.3	27.1	30	18.6	24.2
Keino et al. (2017) [19]	64	Japan	57.8	0	3.1	1.6	1.6	6.3	56.3	0	15.6	28.1
Current study	155	Korea	65.2	14.8	6.5	1.9	1.9	0.7	51.6	6.5	1.9	26.5

JIA juvenile idiopathic arthritis, VKH Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada syndrome, UK United Kingdom, USA United States of America
^aIdiopathic uveitis includes pars planitis (11.8%) and idiopathic intermediate uveitis (24.2%)
^bIdiopathic uveitis includes pars planitis (14.9%) and idiopathic uveitis (26.4%)
^cIdiopathic uveitis includes pars planitis (did not specify the number of patients of pars planitis)
^dIdiopathic uveitis includes pars planitis (17.1%) and idiopathic uveitis (28.8%)
^eIdiopathic uveitis includes pars planitis (23.9%) and idiopathic uveitis (16.5%)
^fOther studies did not distinguish between pars planitis and idiopathic intermediate uveitis

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