Health-related quality of life in children with Familial Mediterranean Fever: a Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory-based evaluation with mutation-specific analysis.

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Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) is a chronic autoinflammatory disease that may adversely affect health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in childhood. The relative contributions of age, inflammatory burden, and MEFV mutation type to HRQoL impairment remain incompletely clarified. This cross-sectional study included 100 children with FMF and 70 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. HRQoL was assessed using the...

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