Science news articles about 'juvenile rheumatoid arthritis'

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that strikes children between the ages of newborn to 16 years. All children with JRA have joint pain, stiffness, and swelling and ...

... (JIA), formerly called juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. The genetic variant is on chromosome 9 in a region ... The study appears in the July 2008 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatism. Lead authors are Terri H. ...

... aged 29-66 years, mean 44 years; disease duration 2-34 years) (including those with rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, spondylarthropathy; 13 men, 10 women) who ...