https://doi.org/10.4081/reumatismo.2024.1638

Disease activity assessment for juvenile idiopathic arthritis in transitional care

Vol. 76 No. 2 (2024)
Submitted: 22 August 2023
Accepted: 24 March 2024
Published: 24 June 2024
Transition, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, disease activity score, JADAS, SDAI
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F. La Torre
latorre_francesco@virgilio.it
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5235-2900
Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Rheumatology Center, Giovanni XXIII Pediatric Hospital, University of Bari, Italy.
C. Coppola
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7843-4400
Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of Bari, Italy.
M.G. Anelli
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1018-1218
Rheumatology Unit, Department of Emergency and Organs Transplantation, University of Bari, Italy.
F. Cacciapaglia
Rheumatology Unit, Department of Emergency and Organs Transplantation, University of Bari, Italy.
G. Lopalco
Rheumatology Unit, Department of Emergency and Organs Transplantation, University of Bari, Italy.
F. Cardinale
Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Rheumatology Center, Giovanni XXIII Pediatric Hospital, University of Bari, Italy.
F. Iannone
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0474-5344
Rheumatology Unit, Department of Emergency and Organs Transplantation, University of Bari, Italy.

Objective. The indices to measure disease activity of chronic arthritis in adulthood and childhood are different. Therefore, assessing the status of the disease in young patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) can be tricky, especially when the transition to adult care is ongoing. The aim of our study was to assess the level of correlation between adult and juvenile scores in the measurement of disease activity in JIA patients during transitional care.

Methods. We estimated the disease activity by using the Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score 71 (JADAS71), clinical JADAS, adult Disease Activity Score (DAS28), Simplified Disease Activity Index (SDAI), and Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) in JIA patients in transitional care. We enrolled patients older than 16 years at the time of the first transition visit, and disease activity was assessed at baseline and 12 months. Regression analyses were carried out to estimate the level of agreement among the different indices.

Results. We recruited 26 patients with JIA; 11 patients were polyarticular (42.3%) and 15 patients were oligoarticular (53.1%). The mean age at diagnosis was 7.7±3.9 years and the age at the first evaluation was 20.9±3.7 years. The correlation between JADAS71 and DAS28 was r2=0.69, r2=0.86 between JADAS71 and SDAI, and r2=0.81 between JADAS71 and CDAI.

Conclusions. SDAI and JADAS71 showed the best correlation, but a few patients were not captured at the same level of disease activity. New prospective studies with a larger number of patients will be needed in this field.

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La Torre, F., Coppola, C., Anelli, M., Cacciapaglia, F., Lopalco, G., Cardinale, F., & Iannone, F. (2024). Disease activity assessment for juvenile idiopathic arthritis in transitional care. Reumatismo, 76(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/reumatismo.2024.1638
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