Table 4 The proportion of patients at the latest visit with active joint count (AJC) > 0 when in clinically inactive disease (CID) or low disease activity (LDA) according to different existing cut-offs of ten-joint count juvenile arthritis disease activity score (JADAS10) and clinical JADAS10 (cJADAS10)

JADAS10

 Patients in CID

n

%

n

%

n

%

Fisher´s exact test

  Oligoarticular disease course

172

202

214

  AJC > 0

0

0

1

0.5

3

1.4

0.066

  Polyarticular disease course

181

204

256

  AJC > 0

0

0

0

0

16

6.2

 < 0.001

 Patients in LDA

  Oligoarticular disease course

94

32

59

  AJC > 0

29

30.9

11

34.3

31

32.5

 < 0.001

  AJC > 1

5

5.3

0

0

8

13.6

0.004

  Polyarticular disease course

101

61

37

  AJC > 0

31

30.7

21

34.4

21

56.8

 < 0.001

  AJC > 1

11

10.9

4

6.6

13

35.1

 < 0.001

cJADAS10

 Patients in CID

  Oligoarticular disease course

289

329

330

  AJC > 0

0

0

1

0.3

1

0.3

0.242

  Polyarticular disease course

279

307

367

  AJC > 0

0

0

0

0

16

4.6

 < 0.001

 Patients in LDA

  Oligoarticular disease course

137

23

105

  AJC > 0

42

30.7

4

17.4

48

45.7

 < 0.001

  AJC > 1

9

6.6

0

0

14

13.3

0.004

  Polyarticular disease course

126

60

38

  AJC > 0

37

29.3

16

26.6

21

55.3

 < 0.001

  AJC > 1

13

10.3

2

3.3

11

28.9

 < 0.001