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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients

From: The importance of lower extremity involvement type on exercise performances, function, and quality of life in peripheral predominant forms of juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Characteristic Mean (or Median) or Percentage
Gender, male rate 40%
Age, years 12.91 (SD 2.37)
BMI, kg/m2 20.23 (SD 3.87)
JIA subtype
 Oligoarticular 75%
 Polyarticular 16%
 Undifferentiated 9%
Pharmacological treatment
 Follow-up without medication 19%
 NSAID only 19%
 DMARD (with or without NSAID) 62%
Disease duration, months 41.00 (SD 38.05)
DAS28 2.85 (SD 1.23)
Hip arthritis 12.5%
Knee arthritis 28.1%
Foot/ankle arthritis 15.6%
JADI-A 0 (IQR 1) (min 0, max 8)
LED positivity rate 37.5%
6MWT, m (n: 30) 427.76 (SD 107.47)
CYC-E test duration, min 10.46 (SD 4.22)
CHAQ 0.13 (IQR 0, 0.69)
PedsQL-3A 84.37 (SD 13.45)
  1. NSAID non-steroid anti-inflammatory drug, DMARD biologic or conventional disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug, DAS28 disease activity score 28, JADI-A Juvenile Arthritis Damage Index – Articular, LED lower extremity deformity, 6MWT 6-min walk test, CYC-E cycling exercise, CHAQ Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire, PedsQL-3A PedsQL 3.0 Arthritis Module