Frequency of osteopenia in adolescents with early‐onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis: A long‐term outcome study of one hundred five patients

Abstract

Forty-one percent of the adolescents with early-onset JIA had low bone mass >11 years after disease onset. The development of low total-body BMC was related to the duration of active disease, disease severity, measures of bone resorption, weight, and height.