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01-07-2012 | Oral presentation
Epidemiology of generalised joint laxity in 14 year old children from the UK: a population-based evaluation
Authors:
Jacqui Clinch, Kevin Deere, Tobias John, Emma Clarke
Published in:
Pediatric Rheumatology
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Special Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
Although diagnostic criteria for generalised joint laxity in children are widely used, they may have limited validity as robust descriptive epidemiology of this condition is lacking.Therefore, we used a large population-based birth cohort to describe the point prevalence and pattern of generalised joint laxity in children aged 14 years old from Bristol and the surrounding area in the South West UK. …