Until recently, autoimmune diseases (multiple sclerosis, Sjogren’s syndrome, Graves’ disease, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, scleroderma, diabetes type I, inflammatory bowel disease, lupus, vitiligo, rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune hepatitis, primary bilary cirrhosis) were treated as separate conditions. But scientists have come to see them as related. In all of them, the immune system attacks the cells, tissues or organs it normally protects. What links these illnesses? Autoimmune disorders, which strike about three times as many women as men, have common symptoms. That may be the key to treating them.
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