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Table 2 Participant characteristics of patients with pediatric uveitis and pediatric controls

From: Involvement of the systemic microcirculation in pediatric uveitis

Demographics

Uveitis

Pediatric controls

P-value

Number of subjects

119

25

 

Male sex, n (%)

52 (44)

13 (52)

0.54

Mean age in years (SD)

13.7 (3)

9.1 (4)

< 0.001

Type of uveitis, n (%)

 

NA

 

 Anterior

55 (46)

 Intermediate

21 (18)

 Panuveitis

43 (36)

Associated systemic disease, n (%)

 

NA

 

 None

62 (52)

 JIA

38 (32)

 Presumed TINU syndrome

13 (11)

 Othera

6 (5)

 Disease duration of uveitis in years

4.7 (4)

NA

 

Type of JIA, n (%)

 Monoarthritis

2

NA

 

 Oligoarthritis

28

  

 Polyarthritis

8

  

 ANA seropositive, n (%)

60 (50)

NA

 

Systemic treatment, n (%)

 None

25 (21)

25 (100)

 

Corticosteroids

16 (13)

0

 

 Methotrexate

45 (38)

0

 

 Mycophenolate mofetil

45 (38)

0

 

 Adalimumab

36 (30)

0

 

 Infliximab

3 (3)

0

 

 Tocilizumab

10 (8)

0

 

 Otherb

4 (3)

0

 
  1. ANA antinuclear antibody, DMARD disease-modifying antirheumatic drug, JIA juvenile idiopathic arthritis, NA not applicable, SD standard deviation, TINU tubulo-interstitial nephritis and uveitis
  2. aVogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease (n = 3), psoriasis vulgaris (n = 2), or Blau syndrome (n = 1)
  3. b Azathioprine (n = 1), Golimumab (n = 1), Leflunamide (n = 1), Tofacitinib (n = 1)