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Psoriasis Risk Rises with TNF Inhibitor Use in Pediatric Inflammatory Diseases
Children with inflammatory bowel disease, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, and chronic noninfectious osteomyelitis who were treated with TNF inhibitors had a higher rate of incident psoriasis than those not exposed to these biologics, say researchers recently writing in Arthritis Care & Research.
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JIA Disease Activity Persists, Despite Lower Uveitis, Major Joint Surgery Rates
While the need for orthopedic surgery and the presence of uveitis have diminished over the past 20 years in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), disease activity is present more than 50 percent of the time, say researchers recently writing in Arthritis Research and Therapy.
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