The association between lean mass and bone mineral content in the high disease activity group of adult patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Table 1 Clinical characteristics of JIA patients and controls

	JIA patients (n = 31)	Controls (n = 84)	p
No of participants	31	84
Male/female (No)	12/19	36/48	0.692
Age (years)	25.1 ± 6.1	23.8 ± 4.5	0.405
Anthropometric measures
Age (years)	25.1 ± 6.1	23.8 ± 4.5	0.405
Height (cm)	170.5 ± 9.8	173.3 ± 9.3	0.145
Weight (kg)	68.0 ± 12.5	69.2 ± 12.5	0.884
BMI (kg/m²)	23.4 ± 3.9	22.9 ± 3.0	0.435
Clinical data
Vertebral fractures (No)	5	0	<0.001
Non-vertebral fractures (No)	6	0	<0.001
Family hip fracture history (No)	0	0
Smoking (No)	7	13	0.372
Alcohol abuse (No)	0	0
Menarche (years)	13.1 ± 1.2	12.9 ± 1.1	0.994
Contraception in female (No)	11	23	0.462
Serum 25(OH)D (nmol/l)	65.9 ± 42.6	50 ± 28.5	0.029
Disease activity
DAS 28	6.36 ± 0.64	-
hsCRP (mg/l)	18.36 ± 16.95	1.40 ± 1.63	<0.001

Displayed are numbers or means ± SD. Clinical characteristics with zero value were not statistically calculated.

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