Predictors of juvenile idiopathic arthritis course.

Introduction: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a heterogeneous group of inflammatory diseases of joints in children with various and often unfavourable prognosis. It is possible to improve the outcome of the disease in patients with JIA by a correct therapeutic choice made at disease onset - one that enables fast achievement of an inactive disease state and remission. The aim of the investigation was to develop a model/application for automatic calculation of risk of treatment-refractory JIA taking into account the combined action of clinical and cytokine factors.