Male sex, Black race and insurance coverage with Medicaid were among factors associated with increased risk for developing 20/200 or worse vision among children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis-associated uveitis, according to research.
“Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), formerly referred to as juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, is the most common rheumatic disease in childhood and the most common systemic disease associated with pediatric uveitis,” Oliver Davidson, from the department of ophthalmology at the University of Washington, and colleagues wrote in Clinical