risk of autoimmune diseases.

[stikker]

Interesting article. Wegener's not mentioned but what else is new.

1 in 12 Women Will Have Autoimmune Disease
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[Sangye]

Holy cow, those numbers are awful.

[elephant]

Yes, I believe because I'm the 12 one in my group of friends.

[Terri]

I know of 4 people just in my work area. One has MS another has thyroid and graves disease, another with various blood disorders and then I have the WG

[dunkie2202]

wow Terri that is one unlucky work area.........

[chrisTIn@]

The chance that women get rheumatoid Arthritis is twice as high as the chance that men get it, according to this article.
'Wegeners'-patients are equally affected, according to the latest insights. The chances to get it, are the same for men and women.

[Sangye]

Most autoimmune diseases affect women more than men. Wegs is odd, as it's equally distributed.

[ScreaminMeanie]

The ratios of "normal" to "affected by AI" people that I know are about right according to that article. I know two people with RA, two with MS, and two with psioritic arthritis.

[drz]

In a diabetes support forum someone started a thread on how many had other autoimmune disorders in their family history and and many people posted a history of parents and grand parents with other autoimmune disorders which one reader suggested indicated a possibility that autoimmune disorders tend to have some common thread in genetics.

[NicShaf]

My husband was telling me about this article last night, 1 in 12 are scary numbers.

I am interested in the family history of autoimmune disorders. I was just diagnosed with Wegs, and my dad also has an autoimmune disorder. He was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis about 10 years ago. I haven't found any research that supports autoimmune disorders running in families or some people having a predisposition to them, but it is interesting that others have a family history. My doc seemed surprised that a father and daughter would both have autoimmunes, and somewhat rare ones...but I guess this was before I found out that 1 in 12 people get them...