… an autoimmune disease. After reviewing the medical literature for incidence and prevalence
rates of 24 autoimmune diseases, we conclude that many autoimmune diseases are …

… illnesses, and patients may avoid discussing it it, and as a result of this, a lack of awareness
of certain autoimmune disorders may remain in the public and the medical community. …

Aim To describe burden, and to explore cross-country inequalities across sociodemographic
development levels for four autoimmune diseases (ADs) including rheumatoid arthritis (RA)…

… diseases in specific countries and old vs. new surveys of incidence/prevalence of various
autoimmune diseases, … Quantification of the likely healthcare burden and the planning of future …

… mortality estimates of widening the case definitions of certain autoimmune disorders to
include less specific codes that were not used in our original case definitions but could also …

… and are of considerable personal and public health burdens. … suggested, it is likely that
selection signals in immune-related … resistance, and the autoimmune disorder is a pleiotropic …

… on the mortality from autoimmune diseases as a group … population. However, these studies
likely have underestimated the burden of SAIDs as a group, because of potential selection …

… This study examines whether patients with PsA carry a higher AI disease burden compared
… significantly increased the risk of having another AI disease and certain comorbidities. Some …

… Walsh and Rau extended the analysis of the burden of autoimmune diseases … population-based
epidemiologic studies of the prevalence or incidence of specific autoimmune diseases…

… to define autoimmunity and specific autoimmune diseases, there … autoimmune disease
definitions, and even agreement on which specific illnesses constitute the autoimmune diseases, …