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Autoimmune disease Primary organ/body part affected Autoantibodies Acceptance as an autoimmune disease Prevalence rate (US) Cit. Autoimmune enteropathy: Small intestine: Anti-enterocyte antibodies Probable Rare [24] Autoimmune hepatitis: Liver: ANA, ASMA, anti-LKM1 Confirmed 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 50,000 [25] Celiac disease: Small intestine
The first estimate of US prevalence for autoimmune diseases as a group was published in 1997 by Jacobson, et al. They reported US prevalence to be around 9 million, applying prevalence estimates for 24 diseases to a US population of 279 million. [73] Jacobson's work was updated by Hayter & Cook in 2012. [74]
Autoimmune diseases can result in systemic or localized symptoms, depending on the given disease. [8] Typical systemic symptoms include fevers, fatigue, muscle aches, joint pain, and rashes; these can be seen in diseases such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis. Other autoimmune diseases have localized effects on specific organ or tissue types.
Why women are at greater risk of autoimmune disease is a long-standing medical mystery. Researchers at Stanford University may now be a step closer to unraveling it. 4 out of 5 autoimmune disease ...
Sex differences in medicine include sex-specific diseases or conditions which occur only in people of one sex due to underlying biological factors (for example, prostate cancer in males or uterine cancer in females); sex-related diseases, which are diseases that are more common to one sex (for example, breast cancer and systemic lupus erythematosus which occur predominantly in females); [1 ...
Autoimmune diseases can be broadly divided into systemic and organ-specific or localised autoimmune disorders, depending on the principal clinico-pathologic features of each disease. Systemic autoimmune diseases include coeliac disease , lupus erythematosus , Sjögren syndrome , scleroderma , rheumatoid arthritis , cryoglobulinemic vasculitis ...
Autoimmune diseases affecting other organs most commonly associated with Hashimoto's thyroiditis include celiac disease, type 1 diabetes, vitiligo, alopecia, [51] Addison disease, Sjogren's syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis [13] [52] Autoimmune thyroiditis has also been seen in patients with autoimmune polyendocrine syndromes type 1 and 2.
Higher female prevalence is common in autoimmune diseases. [citation needed] In the United States, up to 72% of patients diagnosed with UCTD had white skin. [3] Prevalence of UCTD has been estimated at 2 people per 100,000 people per year. [28] Annual incidence has been estimated as varying from 41 to 149 per 100,000 adults.