Epidemiology of juvenile dermatomyositis in Alsace.

Epidemiology of juvenile dermatomyositis in Alsace. Br J Dermatol. 2019 Dec 10;: Authors: Moegle C, Severac F, Lipsker D Abstract Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare inflammatory myopathy. 1 Little reliable data is available on epidemiology of JDM.This is an observational, retrospective, multicenter study, using the capture-recapture method to assess incidence and prevalence of JDM in Alsace, a French region with a low migratory rate. Only patients, aged 0 to 16 years, having JDM according to the Bohan and Peter criteria 2 and the EULAR/ACR criteria 3 , were included. Overlap syndromes were excluded. Seven sources were used: hospital dermatologists and pediatricians, their counterparts in private practice, hospital rheumatologists and internists, and the French Information System Medicalization Program (ISMP). PMID: 31823358 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The British Journal of Dermatology - Category: Dermatology Authors: Tags: Br J Dermatol Source Type: research