Impaired cardiorespiratory and neuromuscular fitness in children and adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a cross-sectional case-control study in the era of biologic drug therapies

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• who: Kati Ru00e4su00e4nen from the Participants with JIA were recruited in two pediatric outpatient clinics in Kuopio and Tampere University Hospitals between , and The first inclusion criteria was ongoing juvenile idiopathic arthritis diagnosed before the age of , years. The second inclusion criteria was the age of, years enabling the performance of all physical tests. Exclusion criteria included physical or neurological disability, acute infection, or a long QT- syndrome preventing the performance of the physical tests. The JIA patients had been diagnosed according to the criteria of International League of Associations for Rheumatology [23]. In this study, patients . . .
  

   

  

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