PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | juvenile idiopathic arthritis |
| Phenotype | C0028754|obesity |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 23554546 | Therefore, the aims of the study were, firstly, to investigate the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and, secondly, to examine possible associations between excess body weight and traditional cardiovascular risk factors together with selected inflammatory markers and early changes in cardiovascular system, which may predispose this group of patients into early clinically symptomatic atherosclerosis. |
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