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Questions regarding Juvenile Arthritis Study

1. Are doses of corticosteroid equally effective when ingested versus injected?

2. What are the key units of measurement for dosage patterns, and which is of the greatest interest? (i.e. dosage amount, dosage frequency)

3. What difference in growth would be scientifically relevant between a JRA case and a similar child without JRA?

ShannonErdelyi (talk)20:35, 30 January 2013

1. Taking corticosteroid might have a beneficial effect on wight gain, but an adverse influence on growth in height. Then how to evaluate the effect of this treatment?

2. How to decide the pattern of dosings? Just depend on doctor's decisions or subject physical conditions? Does this variation of dosings between physicians rusult in some bias in final analysis?

PeijunSang (talk)23:18, 30 January 2013

1. Are the corticosteroid will be equally effective if the patterns of doses are not equal between physicians ?

2. Longer breaks between doses are helpful for the body, how they said it just previous experience or from another study ?

MdMahsin (talk)23:53, 30 January 2013