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IJE Advance Access originally published online on April 25, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(3):671-672; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi082
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2005; all rights reserved.

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Commentary: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis—issues of definition and causation

Deborah Symmons

ARC Epidemiology Unit, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Room 2.600 Stopford Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK. E-mail:deborah.symmons@manchester.ac.uk

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Juvenile inflammatory arthritis (JIA) in children comprises a number of different conditions—some of which have adult equivalents and others do not.1 The term juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) has different meanings on either side of the Atlantic. In the USA it is a collective term for all types of inflammatory arthritis in childhood. In Europe, at the time of the reported study,2 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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