Juvenile and young adult-onset systemic sclerosis share the same organ involvement in adulthood: data from the EUSTAR database

The subset distribution in the jSSc and aSSc cohorts was found to be similar. Only the frequency of ACAs was significantly lower in the jSSc, which supports the hypothesis that the SSc patients with paediatric onset in the adult cohort may represent a distinct subgroup of the complete cohort of paediatric patients.