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2020 Sep


Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken)


72


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Anxiety associates with pain and disability but not increased measures of inflammation for adolescent patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Authors

Hanns L, Radziszewska A, Suffield L, Josephs F, Chaplin H, Peckham H, Sen D, Christie D, Carvalho LA, Ioannou Y
Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2020 Sep; 72(9):1266-1274.
PMID: 31199593.

Abstract

To explore whether anxiety and depression associate with clinical measures of disease for adolescent JIA patients. To explore whether anxiety and depression associate with increased peripheral pro-inflammatory cytokine levels in adolescent JIA patients and in healthy adolescent controls.