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Sexual maturation in Moroccan patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis

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Abnormal puberty is often reported in children suffering from many chronic diseases. Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common joint disorder in developing children. The aim of this study was to assess sexual maturation of Moroccan children with JIA and to compare the development of secondary sexual characteristics in children with JIA to children in the general population. Forty children with JIA and 74 healthy controls were included in a cross-sectional study. The diagnosis of JIA was made according to the criteria of the International League of Association of Rheumatology. Every child was examined for the development of genitalia as per criteria given by Tanner. The children with JIA were also divided into 3 groups: pre-puberty (stage 1), puberty (stages 2–3) and post-puberty (stage 4–5), and the association between puberty and cumulative dose of steroids, disease duration, disease activity, height, weight and age was investigated. Forty children with JIA were included (22 male, 18 female); the mean of age of the patients was 11 ± 4.23 years. Puberty in the patients (mean of tanner 2.43 ± 1.36) was lower than controls (2.55 ± 1.36). The prevalence of the children in prepuberty was of 15 (37.5 %) and 8 (20 %) in postpuberty. The prevalence of the children having a delayed puberty was of 6 (15 %) versus 1(1.4 %) in healthy controls (p = 0.005). There was an association between dose of corticosteroids, age at the administration of corticosteroids and the delayed puberty in boys (p = 0.009). In addition, there was no significant association in both sex between this poor puberty and duration of JIA (p = 0.45 in boys and p = 1.99 in girls) and its activity calculated by the DAS28 (p = 0.73 in boys and p = 1). Our study suggests that the puberty is retarded in Moroccan patients with JIA comparing to healthy children and that the dose of corticosteroid and the age at its administration may contribute to delayed puberty in boys.

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  1. Department of Rheumatology, EL Ayachi Hospital, University Hospital of Rabat-Sale, 11000, Sale, Morocco

    D. El Badri, S. Rostom, I. Bouaddi, A. Hassani, B. Amine & N. Hajjaj-Hassouni

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Hospital of children, University Hospital of Rabat-Sale, 11000, Rabat, Morocco

    B. Chkirate

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El Badri, D., Rostom, S., Bouaddi, I. et al. Sexual maturation in Moroccan patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Rheumatol Int 34, 665–668 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00296-013-2737-9

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