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2. Types of Rheumatic Diseases and How They Affect You - AOL

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   Autoimmune rheumatic disease causes your immune system to malfunction and attack healthy tissues, including major organs. ... RA is known for causing joint-damaging inflammation that leads to pain ...

3. Rheumatoid arthritis - Wikipedia

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   Deaths. 30,000 (2015) [4] Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term autoimmune disorder that primarily affects joints. [1] It typically results in warm, swollen, and painful joints. [1] Pain and stiffness often worsen following rest. [1] Most commonly, the wrist and hands are involved, with the same joints typically involved on both sides of the ...

4. Can Inflammation Cause Autoimmune Disorders? Experts ... - AOL

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   There are more than 80 autoimmune conditions (lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, celiac disease, and multiple sclerosis are a few), but they have one thing in common: inflammation.

5. Immune-mediated inflammatory diseases - Wikipedia

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   An immune-mediated inflammatory disease (IMID) is any of a group of conditions or diseases that lack a definitive etiology, but which are characterized by common inflammatory pathways leading to inflammation, and which may result from, or be triggered by, a dysregulation of the normal immune response. All IMIDs can cause end organ damage, and ...

6. Autoimmune disease - Wikipedia

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   An autoimmune disease is a condition that results from an anomalous response of the adaptive immune system, wherein it mistakenly targets and attacks healthy, functioning parts of the body as if they were foreign organisms. [1] It is estimated that there are more than 80 recognized autoimmune diseases, with recent scientific evidence suggesting ...

7. Lupus - Wikipedia

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   Lupus. Lupus, technically known as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue in many parts of the body. [1] Symptoms vary among people and may be mild to severe. [1] Common symptoms include painful and swollen joints, fever, chest pain, hair loss, mouth ...