JRA is associated with significant and consistent changes in serum levels of inflammatory cytokines and soluble receptors. For the clinical monitoring of JRA, determination of levels of sTNFR, and to some extent sIL-2R, may be particularly useful, since these determinations yield information about subtype and/or activity of disease that is not available from conventional parameters of inflammation.
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