Abstract
Autoimmune Diseases in Limited Setting Country (Burkina Faso): Epidemiology, Technical and Diagnostic Performance of Specific Biomarkers for the Early Diagnosis
Highlights
Autoimmune diseases represent a heterogeneous family of chronic, disabling diseases with different natural histories and a wide spectrum of clinical symptoms
Comprehensive national data on the incidence, prevalence, and medical and economic impact of autoimmune diseases do not exist in the aggregate, or for the majority of individual autoimmune diseases, the statistics that are available make clear that the impact of these diseases is significant
The referral diagnosis was right in 17/65 patients (26.2%)
Summary
Autoimmune diseases represent a heterogeneous family of chronic, disabling diseases with different natural histories and a wide spectrum of clinical symptoms These disorders share underlying defects in the immune response leading the body to attack its own organs and tissues. While many individual autoimmune diseases are rare, collectively they are thought to affect approximately 5 to 8 percent of the United States population – 14 to 22 million persons [3,4,5,6,7,8]. Because of their chronicity, measured in decades, and their debilitating complications, autoimmune diseases exact high medical and socioeconomic costs. We aimed to investigate the burden, immunological and clinical diagnosis of autoimmune diseases in Burkina Faso
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