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Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Roma Children Seem to Run More Risk than Non-Roma
Background: Ethnic information regarding juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) exists for various populations across the world but is fully lacking for Roma. We assessed the occurrence and clinical characteristics of JIA in Roma vs. non-Roma children. Methods: We obtained data on all outpatients (n =...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7177970/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32244474 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072377 |
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author | Drobnakova, Simona Madarasova Geckova, Andrea Vargova, Veronika Schusterova, Ingrid Rosenberger, Jaroslav Klein, Daniel P van Dijk, Jitse Reijneveld, Sijmen A. |
author_facet | Drobnakova, Simona Madarasova Geckova, Andrea Vargova, Veronika Schusterova, Ingrid Rosenberger, Jaroslav Klein, Daniel P van Dijk, Jitse Reijneveld, Sijmen A. |
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description | Background: Ethnic information regarding juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) exists for various populations across the world but is fully lacking for Roma. We assessed the occurrence and clinical characteristics of JIA in Roma vs. non-Roma children. Methods: We obtained data on all outpatients (n = 142) from a paediatric rheumatology centre (age 3 to 18 years) in the eastern part of Slovakia (Kosice region). We assessed patients’ age, gender, disease type and related extra-articular conditions by ethnicity. We obtained population data from the 2011 census. Results: The share of Roma children was higher in the clinical JIA sample than in the overall population (24.6%, n = 35, Roma in the sample vs. 10.8%, n = 142, Roma in the population, p < 0.05). Moreover, Roma children had been diagnosed more frequently with extra-articular conditions but did not differ in other symptoms. Treatments also did not differ by ethnicity. Conclusion: Roma children had been diagnosed more with JIA than their non-Roma peers. This calls for further research on the causes of this increased disease burden in Roma children. |
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spelling | pubmed-71779702020-04-28 Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Roma Children Seem to Run More Risk than Non-Roma Drobnakova, Simona Madarasova Geckova, Andrea Vargova, Veronika Schusterova, Ingrid Rosenberger, Jaroslav Klein, Daniel P van Dijk, Jitse Reijneveld, Sijmen A. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: Ethnic information regarding juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) exists for various populations across the world but is fully lacking for Roma. We assessed the occurrence and clinical characteristics of JIA in Roma vs. non-Roma children. Methods: We obtained data on all outpatients (n = 142) from a paediatric rheumatology centre (age 3 to 18 years) in the eastern part of Slovakia (Kosice region). We assessed patients’ age, gender, disease type and related extra-articular conditions by ethnicity. We obtained population data from the 2011 census. Results: The share of Roma children was higher in the clinical JIA sample than in the overall population (24.6%, n = 35, Roma in the sample vs. 10.8%, n = 142, Roma in the population, p < 0.05). Moreover, Roma children had been diagnosed more frequently with extra-articular conditions but did not differ in other symptoms. Treatments also did not differ by ethnicity. Conclusion: Roma children had been diagnosed more with JIA than their non-Roma peers. This calls for further research on the causes of this increased disease burden in Roma children. MDPI 2020-03-31 2020-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7177970/ /pubmed/32244474 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072377 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Drobnakova, Simona Madarasova Geckova, Andrea Vargova, Veronika Schusterova, Ingrid Rosenberger, Jaroslav Klein, Daniel P van Dijk, Jitse Reijneveld, Sijmen A. Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Roma Children Seem to Run More Risk than Non-Roma |
title | Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Roma Children Seem to Run More Risk than Non-Roma |
title_full | Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Roma Children Seem to Run More Risk than Non-Roma |
title_fullStr | Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Roma Children Seem to Run More Risk than Non-Roma |
title_full_unstemmed | Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Roma Children Seem to Run More Risk than Non-Roma |
title_short | Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Roma Children Seem to Run More Risk than Non-Roma |
title_sort | juvenile idiopathic arthritis: roma children seem to run more risk than non-roma |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7177970/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32244474 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072377 |
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