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Table 4 Overall presence of autoimmune comorbidity or laboratory phenomena

From: Prevalence of autoantibodies in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: results from the German inception cohort ICON-JIA

Comorbidity

n

Patients with elevated autoantibodies

Thyroid specific serology

Hypothyroidism

6

0

diagnosed before analysis

2

 

diagnosed after analysis

4

 

Autoimmune thyroiditis

8

6

diagnosed before analysis

5

4

diagnosed after analysis

3

2

Other thyroid disorder

2

0

diagnosed after analysis

2

 

Without clinical comorbidity

21

21

Celiac disease specific serology

Celiac disease

3

1

diagnosed before analysis

3

1

Without clinical comorbidity

2

2

Connective tissue disease specific serology

Scleroderma

1

0

diagnosed after analysis

1

 

Overlap syndrome

1

1

diagnosed after analysis

1

1

Without clinical comorbidity

34

34

Total patients with clinical comorbidities

21

 

Patients with both clinical comorbidity and antibodies

8

Total laboratory results with elevated autoantibodies

65