Using the Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score based on erythrocyte sedimentation rate or C-reactive protein level: results from the Portuguese register

• Author(s): Mourão, AF ; Santos, MJ ; Melo-Gomes, J ; Martins, FM ; Costa, JA ; Ramos, F ; Brito, I ; Duarte, C ; Figueira, R ; Figueiredo, G ; Furtado, C ; Lopes, A ; Oliveira, M ; Rodrigues, A ; Salgado, M ; Sousa, M ; Branco, J ; Fonseca, JE ; Canhão, H
• Date: 2014
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.4/1977
• Origin: Repositório do Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra
• Subject(s): Adolescente; Artrite Juvenile; Biomarcadores; Proteína C-Reactiva; Mediadores da Inflamação; Articulações
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): RIHUC

Description

Our aims were to evaluate the correlation between Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score 27-joint reduced count (JADAS27) with erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and JADAS27 with C-reactive protein (CRP) scores and to test the agreement of both scores on classifying each disease activity state. We also aimed at verifying the correlation of the 2 scores across juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) categories and to check the correlation between JADAS27-ESR and clinical JADAS27 (JADAS27 without ESR).