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JRA

What exactly is JRA?
Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA), or sometimes called juvenile chronic arthritis, is a disease that affects children causing joint inflammation
which makes the joints stiff and painful. This Disease affects about one in one thousand children ages sixteen and younger. Doctors have also found that the more joints affected the more serious the disease and symptoms are less likely to go into full remission.
There are three types of JRA and each type is based on the number of joints affected in the first six months of the active onset. The first type, which is the most common, affecting 60% of children that have JRA is Pauciarticular JRA. This form of the disease affects one to four joints in the child and is also known as oiligoarthritis. Joints most commonly affected are the knee and wrist joints. Also an inflammation
of the Iris may be present with or without joint inflammation
.
The second type, Polyarticular JRA, affects 30% of children with......

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