Female Sex and Oligoarthritis Category Are Not Risk Factors for Uveitis in Italian Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Abstract

In our patients, the risk of uveitis was related to younger age at onset of arthritis and presence of ANA, but not to female sex and disease category. This finding suggests that the patients who require the most intensive ophthalmologic screening are those who have early-onset JIA and are ANA-positive, regardless of their sex or disease subtype.