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Does having juvenile rheumatoid arthritis affect people's life expectancy?
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It can if not treate: It can if not treated properly and the complications will affect the life expectancy it is a chronic disease but can go into remissions and 75% of patients go into remission and they have good prognosis.
Answered 11/8/2012
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