A population-based study on autoimmune disease

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The increasing prevalence of autoimmune diseases has become one of the leading concerns in public health. 1 Wang L Wang FS Gershwin ME Human autoimmune diseases: a comprehensive update. J Intern Med. 2015; 278: 369-395 Crossref PubMed Scopus (505) Google Scholar , 2 Greiner W Patel K Crossman-Barnes CJ Rye-Andersen TV Hvid C Vandebrouck T High-expenditure disease in the EU-28: does drug spend correspond to clinical and economic burden in oncology, autoimmune disease and diabetes?. PharmacoEconom Open. 2021; 5: 385-396 Crossref PubMed Scopus (8) Google Scholar Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells and tissues in the body, leading to chronic inflammation, tissue damage, and organ dysfunction. 1 Wang L Wang FS Gershwin ME Human autoimmune diseases: a comprehensive update. J Intern Med. 2015; 278: 369-395 Crossref PubMed Scopus (505) Google Scholar As more people are diagnosed with autoimmune disease, the burden on health-care systems, families, and communities grows. 2 Greiner W Patel K Crossman-Barnes CJ Rye-Andersen TV Hvid C Vandebrouck T High-expenditure disease in the EU-28: does drug spend correspond to clinical and economic burden in oncology, autoimmune disease and diabetes?. PharmacoEconom Open. 2021; 5: 385-396 Crossref PubMed Scopus (8) Google Scholar Adequate public health and service delivery planning requires reliable information about contemporary population-level disease incidence; however, there is a poor understanding about the estimates of autoimmune diseases and their temporal trends in many countries. 3 Scherlinger M Mertz P Sagez F et al. Worldwide trends in all-cause mortality of auto-immune systemic diseases between 2001 and 2014. Autoimmun Rev. 2020; 19102531 Crossref PubMed Scopus (53) Google Scholar Little is known about the similarities and differences between these diseases concerning the incidence, prevalence, and co-occurrence. 4 Głowińska-Olszewska B Szabłowski M Panas P et al. Increasing co-occurrence of additional autoimmune disorders at diabetes type 1 onset among children and adolescents diagnosed in years 2010-2018-single-center study. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2020; 11: 476 Crossref PubMed Scopus (9) Google Scholar Incidence, prevalence, and co-occurrence of autoimmune disorders over time and by age, sex, and socioeconomic status: a population-based cohort study of 22 million individuals in the UKAutoimmune diseases affect approximately one in ten individuals, and their burden continues to increase over time at varying rates across individual diseases. The socioeconomic, seasonal, and regional disparities observed among several autoimmune disorders in our study suggest environmental factors in disease pathogenesis. The inter-relations between autoimmune diseases are commensurate with shared pathogenetic mechanisms or predisposing factors, particularly among connective tissue diseases and among endocrine diseases. Full-Text PDF