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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients from different registries

From: Pharmacovigilance in juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients treated with biologic or synthetic drugs: combined data of more than 15,000 patients from Pharmachild and national registries

 

Pharmachild

N = 8274

BiKeR

N = 3990

Sweden

N = 3020

Number of countries

32

2#

1

Number of centers

86

72

33

Number of patients per center

55.5 (17–124)

10.5 (3–39.8)

52 (31–78)

Age at onset

5.4 (2.4–10.0)

7.6 (3.2–11.7)

7.6 (2.9–11.7)1

Age at JIA diagnosis

6.2 (2.8–10.9)

8.3 (3.5–12.8)2

Disease duration at last visit

5.3 (2.7–8.8)

6.1 (3.5–9.5)

6.8 (4.3–10.1)3

Female

5584 (67.5%)

2670 (66.9%)

1989 (65.9%)

Antinuclear antibodies (ANA)*

1767 (21.4%)

1900 (47.6%)

ILAR JIA category

 

4

5

 Systemic

911 (11.0%)

267 (6.7%)

109 (4.7%)

 Oligo

3071 (37.1%)

1215 (30.5%)

1148 (49.6%)

  Oligo persistent

2011 (24.3%)

494 (12.4%)

  Oligo extended

1060 (12.8%)

721 (18.1%)

 Polyarticular RF

2183 (26.4%)

1192 (29.9%)

568 (24.6%)

 Polyarticular RF+

322 (3.9%)

243 (6.1%)

85 (3.7%)

 Psoriatic arthritis

285 (3.4%)

296 (7.4%)

160 (6.9%)

 Enthesitis-related arthritis

924 (11.2%)

649 (16.3%)

185 (8.0%)

 Undifferentiated arthritis

578 (7.0%)

127 (3.2%)

58 (2.5%)

  1. Data are medians (1st–3rd quartiles) or frequencies (percentages)
  2. *ANA at least two consecutively positive determinations according to local standards
  3. # Germany and Austria
  4. 1data available for 2477 subjects
  5. 2data available for 2197 subjects
  6. 3data available for 2479 subjects
  7. 4data available for 3989 subjects
  8. 5data available for 2313 subjects
  9. Abbreviations: BiKeR Biologics in Pediatric Rheumatology Registry, ILAR International League of Associations for Rheumatology, JIA juvenile idiopathic arthritis, RF rheumatoid factor