Archive for the ‘Juvenile’ Category
Sunday, September 9th, 2007 |
Children love to run about, it’s lovely to watch a child they don’t have a care in the world and they can do anything. It’s horrible when a child is unable to do everything they love because they suffer from a crippling disease such as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA).
The main objective of any juvenile arthritis [...]
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007 |
Arthritis is normally only associated with old people; however it does also affect children. Arthritis is actually more common in children than you might have previously thought, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is the most common form of arthritis to affect children.
There are three main types of JRA, and so the symptoms will differ with each.
Pauciarticular JRA
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007 |
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease also referred to as idiopathic arthritis. Scientists do not currently know what causes juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, but there is currently a lot of research going on to try and determine the causes and possible treatments.
This disease is an autoimmune disease; this is where the body is unable to [...]
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007 |
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis is actually the most common type of arthritis to affect children, JRA as it’s also known may be fairly minor and cause little problems, or it can be much more apparent. In the most severe of cases JRA can cause sufferers severe complications over an extended period of time.
The symptoms of JRA [...]
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