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ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATOLOGY
Volume 74, Issue 8, Pages 1409-1419Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/art.42113
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- Fast Foundation
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [QNT 69301]
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This study compared the ILAR and PRINTO JIA classification criteria in a cohort of JIA patients. The results showed that a large proportion of JIA patients were unclassifiable using the PRINTO criteria, and the alignment with clinicobiologic subtypes and adult forms of arthritis was not as good as the ILAR criteria.
Objective The aim of the Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organisation (PRINTO) juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) classification criteria, which is still in development, is to identify homogeneous groups of JIA patients. This study was undertaken to compare International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR) JIA classification criteria and PRINTO JIA classification criteria using data from the ReACCh-Out (Research in Arthritis in Canadian Children, Emphasizing Outcomes) cohort. Methods We used clinicobiologic data recorded within 7 months of diagnosis to assign a diagnosis of JIA and identify subcategories of JIA among 1,228 patients according to the 2 JIA classification systems. We compared the proportions of patients classified and the alignment of classification categories with clinicobiologic subtypes and adult arthritis types. Results The PRINTO criteria classified 244 patients (19.9%) as having early-onset antinuclear antibody-positive JIA, 157 (12.8%) as having enthesitis/spondylitis-related JIA, 38 (3.1%) as having systemic JIA, and 10 (0.8%) as having rheumatoid factor-positive JIA. A total of 12% of patients were unclassifiable using the ILAR criteria, while 63.3% were unclassifiable using the PRINTO criteria (777 with other JIA and 2 with unclassified JIA). In sensitivity analyses, >50% of patients remained unclassifiable using the PRINTO criteria. Compared to the PRINTO criteria, ILAR JIA categories aligned better with clinicobiologic subtypes in 131 patients (chi(2) = 44, P = 0.005, versus chi(2) = 15, P = 0.07 for PRINTO), and ILAR categories aligned better with adult types of arthritis in 389 evaluable patients. Conclusion Currently identified PRINTO disorders can only be used to classify a minority of JIA patients, leaving a large proportion of JIA patients with other disorders requiring further characterization. Current PRINTO JIA classification criteria do not align better with clinicobiologic subtypes or adult forms of arthritis compared with the older ILAR classification system.
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