The distribution of juvenile idiopathic arthritis in the eastern Mediterranean: results from the registry of the Turkish Paediatric Rheumatology Association.

Abstract

Enthesitis related arthritis had a high frequency whereas psoriatic arthritis was very rare compared to other series. We suggest that there are certain differences in the characteristics of JIA in our eastern Mediterranean population. Thus, genetic studies need to be assessed in these populations separately and findings of genome wide association studies need to be confirmed in different populations.