However, in the current study, systemic JIA did not emerge as an independent predictor of response, although there was a weak trend for patients with systemic JIA to have a lower proportion of patients achieving higher ACR Pedi response compared with other subtypes (not statistically significant), but the proportion achieving ACR Pedi 30 responses was similar.
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Factors associated with improvement in disease activity following initiation of etanercept in children and young people with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: results from the British Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Rheumatology Etanercept Cohort Study.
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When patients were grouped by ILAR category, JADAS-71 improved after 1 year of treatment in all ILAR subtypes, although this did not reach statistical significance in patients with persistent oligoarticular JIA ( Table 2 ).