Health condition

Arthritis, Juvenile

What is Arthritis, Juvenile?

Arthritis in children, with onset before 16 years of age. The terms juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) refer to classification systems for chronic arthritis in children. Only one subtype of juvenile arthritis (polyarticular-onset, rheumatoid factor-positive) clinically resembles adult rheumatoid arthritis and is considered its childhood equivalent.

Biomedical terminology and classification based on Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).

Research evidence

This condition is included in the encyclopedia, but no sufficiently linked research records are currently available in the local evidence database.

Most studied probiotic strains

Probiotic effects can be strain-specific. The organisms below are ranked using publications currently linked to this condition.

No specific probiotic strains are currently linked to this condition in the evidence database.

Key research

No highly relevant research articles are currently available for this condition in the local evidence database.

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