Uveitis associated with juvenile arthritis: a continued cohort study 40 years after uveitis onset

Table 1 Missing patients in the present study mean 40.7-year after uveitis onset

	Deceased before the 40-years follow-up.	Not responding to invitation	Not found	Total
Number of patients	11	10	4	25
Female sex (%)	8	7	3	18 (72.2)
EULAR^a diagnosis
O	7	10	4	21
P	3	0	0	3
S	1	0	0	1
ANA^b + (%+)	5	8	4	17 (68)
HLA-B27^c + (%+)	2	2	1	5 (20.0)
Patients with severe visual impairment both eyes^d
at the 7.2 -year follow-up	0	1	1	2
at 24.0- year follow-up	2	1	0	3

^a EULAR diagnosis O oligoarthritis, P polyarthritis, S systemic
^b Number of patients who were ANA positive at joint disease diagnosis
^c Number of patients who had the HLA-B27 haplotype
^d According to the World Health Organization classification of visual impairment. Severe visual impairment is defined as a vision score of poorer than 0.1 (Snellen 20/200)

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