Validation of the juvenile artritis disease activity score in 1124 patient visits

Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Associated and Autoimmune Diseases with the Validity of Das 28

“…Some argue that DAS28 is not a valid measure for children. However, in the first place, Kostareva et al, 2011 andde Vries et al, 2011 proved its validity as mentioned earlier. Secondly, DAS28 implies the probability of joints affection; this could entail any number of joints, not necessarily all or none.…”

“…While the DAS28 (CRP) yielded a better EULAR response more often than the DAS28 (ESR), the validation profile was similar to the DAS28 (ESR), indicating that both measures are useful for assessing disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (Wells et al, 2009).DAS28 is used as a measure for activity score in JIA patients by Kostareva et al, 2011(2011) and de Vries et al, 2011(2011. The former found that, there is a strong correlation between DAS 28 and JIA patients at a high degree of activity while poor correlation holds at low degree activity.…”