Session Information
Date: Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Title: Pediatric Rheumatology – Clinical and Therapeutic Aspects II: Juvenile Arthritis
Session Type: ACR Concurrent Abstract Session
Session Time: 4:30PM-6:00PM
Background/Purpose:
The measurement of the level of disease activity plays a pivotal role in the care of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). To serve this purpose, the Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score (JADAS) was developed in 2009. More recently, a version excluding the acute phase reactant was tested (cJADAS). Cutoff values for the state of remission, low disease activity (LDA), moderate disease activity (MDA) and high disease activity (HDA) were recently developed for the original JADAS score and for the clinical version. These cutoff values are ideally suited for pursuing tight disease control in a treat-to-target strategy, with treatment escalation if the desired JADAS score is not reached. However, although cutoffs were validated in a large and multinational cohort of patients, they were developed in a dataset of patients from a single pediatric rheumatology center an partly before the advent of the so-called biologic era. Aim of the study is to develop the JADAS and cJADAS cut-off values of remission, LDA, MDA, and HDA for oligoarthritis and RF-negative polyarthritis in a large multinational cohort of JIA patients
Methods: The EPidemiology, treatment and Outcome of Childhood Arthritis (EPOCA) study is aimed to obtain information on the frequency of JIA subtypes in different geographic areas, the therapeutic approaches adopted by pediatric rheumatologists practicing in diverse countries or continents, and the disease and health status of children with JIA currently followed worldwide. More than 9.000 patients with JIA from 118 pediatric rheumatology centres in 49 countries were collected so far. For the development of cut-offs, patients with oligoarthritis and polyarthritis followed in the 20 Centres with the highest frequency of these 2 subtypes were retained. In each centre, the 75th centile of JADAS and cJADAS distribution in patients who were subjectively rated by the attending physician as being in remission and LDA, and the 25th centile of JADAS and cJADAS in patients rated as in HDA, were calculated. The obtained values at each centre were then averaged to obtain the prelimary cut-offs for each disease activity state.
Results: The cutoffs validation cohorts were made of 930 patients with oligoarthritis from 20 pediatric rheumatology Centres and 1.004 patients with RF-neg polyarthritis from 20 pediatric rheumatology Centres. Preliminary cut offs values for each versions of JADAS and cJADAS are presented in table.
JADAS10 |
JADAS27 |
JADAS71 |
cJADAS10 |
cJADAS27 |
cJADAS71 |
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Oligoarthritis |
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Remission |
1.5 |
1.5 |
1.5 |
1.2 |
1.2 |
1.2 |
LDA |
3.9 |
3.7 |
3.9 |
3.4 |
3.3 |
3.4 |
HDA |
16.4 |
16.2 |
16.4 |
14.3 |
14.1 |
14.3 |
Polyarthritis |
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Remission |
2.6 |
2.6 |
2.6 |
2.4 |
2.3 |
2.4 |
LDA |
5.1 |
4.9 |
5.1 |
5.1 |
4.9 |
5.1 |
HDA |
18.9 |
18.9 |
22.7 |
19.0 |
20.0 |
25.3 |
Conclusion: New JADAS and cJADAS temptative cut-offs for remission, LDA, and HDA were calculated. Obtained values will be tested in the validation analysis. The preliminary values are higher than currently available cut-offs.
To cite this abstract in AMA style:
Consolaro A, Van Dijkhuizen P, Espada G, Varbanova B, Oliveira S, Miettunen P, Chédeville G, Hofer M, Dolezalová P, Foeldvari I, Horneff G, Estmann A, Pruunsild C, Merino R, Calvo Penades I, Mesa del Castillo P, Lahdenne P, Ioseliani M, Trachana M, Vougiouka O, Harjacek M, Orban I, Constantin T, Shafaie N, Panaviene VV, Rygg M, Smolewska E, Melo Gomes JA, Vojinovic J, Alexeeva E, Avcin T, Vargova V, Aktay Ayaz N, Kasapcopur O, Boyko Y, Ringold S, Rinaldi M, Garrone M, Ruperto N, Ravelli A. Development of New Juvenile Arthritis Disease Activity Score Cut-Offs for Oligoarthritis and RF-Negative Polyarthritis from a Large Multinational Cohort of Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis [abstract]. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2017; 69 (suppl 10). https://acrabstracts.org/abstract/development-of-new-juvenile-arthritis-disease-activity-score-cut-offs-for-oligoarthritis-and-rf-negative-polyarthritis-from-a-large-multinational-cohort-of-children-with-juvenile-idiopathic-arthritis/. Accessed .« Back to 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
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