Autoimmune conditions

Emphatically, advancement in medical science over the years has provided doctors with a broad understanding of numerous autoimmune conditions.

Meanwhile, this improved knowledge about those conditions has resulted in more accuracy regarding classification of the diseases, etiology, pathogenic mechanisms of the disease process, diagnosis and treatment options available. 

In effect, more important is the opportunity for ongoing research that could potentially create novel therapeutic insight into how we can overcome autoimmune conditions.

The chronicity and often life-threatening nature of the conditions can be quite frustrating for affected individuals and medical doctors offering treatment. 

According to Johns Hopkins University, it is estimated that the prevalence of autoimmune diseases is about 3 percent of the US population.

This is equivalent to a population of 9.9 million people approximately with a current population of 329 million. Besides, evidence has also shown that there is a gender predilection, with autoimmune diseases being significantly more common in females than males.

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Overall, when people hear the term “Autoimmune conditions”, diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and diabetes mellitus immediately pop up in their minds.

Currently, scientists have identified more than 100 types of autoimmune diseases that can affect humans.

In short, autoimmune conditions are chronic diseases that involve immune reactions against the body’s—or more appropriately, ‘self’—antigens (biologic molecules present on cells).

Overall, these diseases involve a process by which certain cells known as autoantibodies attack antigens. Given these points, these autoantibodies destroy various cells, tissues and organs in the body. 

Afterwards, advancement in research has also provided evidence to support the fact that some autoimmune diseases involve the activation of T cells (a type of the body’s immune cells) that are self-destructive. 

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So, we can categorize autoimmune conditions into two classes based on how many organs or systems they affect.

Eventually, these include:

1. Localized autoimmune conditions

Basically, these autoimmune conditions affect a specific organ. As a result, the effects of these conditions are immune reactions that attack a particular cell type or organ.

Additionally, autoimmune diseases cause symptoms that are specific to the affected organ or tissue.

Below are some examples of autoimmune conditions that affect specific organs or tissues:

2. Systemic autoimmune conditions

Correspondingly, multiple body systems are affected simultaneously by systemic autoimmune diseases, these disorders can affect almost any organ in the body!

In summary, classical history of people with systemic autoimmune diseases involves multiple lesions involving many organs. 

To clarify, here are some examples of systemic autoimmune conditions:

• SLE
• Scleroderma
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Sjögren syndrome
• Polyarteritis nodosa

Thus, most of the systemic autoimmune conditions have been found to produce autoantibodies that attack connective tissues of involved organs.

Besides, numerous medical institutions commonly refer to them as connective tissue illnesses.

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