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Effect of age at disease onset in the clinical profile of spondyloarthritis: a study of 1424 Brazilian patients.

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2012

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Thelma Larocca Skare, N Leite, Adriana Bruscato Bortoluzzo, Célio Roberto Gonçalves, J A B da Silva, A C Ximenes, Manoel Barros Bértolo, Sandra Lúcia Euzébio Ribeiro, M. Keiserman, Rita Menin,
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Abstract

There are two different clinical patterns in SpA defined by age at disease onset: one with predominance of axial symptoms in the group with disease onset ≤ 40 years and another favouring the peripheral manifestations in those with later disease onset.