The Influence of Age on Behcet s Disease Activity

Objective: Behcet's disease (BD) is a multi-systemic vasculitis characterized by a relapsing and remitting, rather than a persisting, disease course. It is thought that BD activity decreases as the age of the afflicted individual increases. Furthermore, disease severity is reported to be greater in individuals that first present with the disease at a young age. This study investigates the association between disease activity scores and both the current ages of BD patients and patient age at disease onset.