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Diabetes is a disorder of metabolism--the way our bodies use digested food for growth and energy. Most of the food we eat is broken down into glucose, the form of sugar in the blood. Glucose is the main source of fuel for the body. After digestion, glucose passes into the bloodstream, where it is used by cells for growth and energy. For glucose to get into cells, insulin must be present. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas, a large gland behind the stomach. When we eat, the pancr...
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Autoimmune diseases arise from an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. Today there are more than 40 human diseases classified as either definite or probable autoimmune diseases and they affect 5-7% of the population. Almost all autoimmune diseases appear without warning or apparent cause and most patients suffer from fatigue.
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Diabetes as related to Autoimmune Diseases (General)
- Celiac Disease-Associated Autoimmune Endocrinopathies
... diabetes, autoimmune thyroid, and other endocrine diseases and that gluten may ... In general, autoimmune disorders can be classified as either organ specific or ...
- Life With an Autoimmune Disease
If you have general, lingering symptoms, you may be suffering from an autoimmune disease -- which means your immune system is attacking healthy tissue.
- MedlinePlus: Autoimmune Diseases
Autoimmune Hepatitis(National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases) ... Common Thread(American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association) ...
- Diabetes Monitor - autoimmune hepatitis
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- Autoimmune disease on MedicineNet.com
If you have general, lingering symptoms, you may be suffering from an autoimmune disease -- which means your immune system is attacking healthy tissue.
- Diabetes Monitor - understanding autoimmune disease
What other factors may influence the development of autoimmune diseases? ... in some Native American communities than in the general U.S. population. ...
- Autoimmune Disease Risk in Families With Type 1 Diabetes
Diabetes is not the only autoimmune disease that family members of Type 1 ... of thyroid autoimmune disease compared to 4.5 percent in the general population. ...
- NIH - Autoimmune Diseases (General)
Official website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ... National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Autoimmune Hepatitis ...
- Autoimmune Diseases
... with scleroderma include autoimmune diseases, CFS, fibromyalgia, interstial ... Dermatology (General) Dermatomyositis. Diabetes. Ear Diseases, Autoimmune ...
- Autoimmunity :: Diabetes Self-Management
Diabetes Self-Management provides up-to-date, practical, how-to information on ... Non-organ-specific autoimmune diseases target more general types of tissues, ...
- Autoimmune Hepatitis
... on the immune system will expand knowledge of autoimmune diseases in general. ... of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes ...
- Autoimmune Disorders
... two general types: those that damage many organs (systemic autoimmune diseases) ... disease often have type 1 diabetes, while persons with sclerosing cholangitis ...
- autoimmune disease: Definition from Answers.com
More about Autoimmune Disorders: Causes and symptoms Symptoms Diagnosis Treatment Prognosis Prevention ... A general autoimmune disease in which antibodies ... Type I diabetes mellitus. ...
- :: American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association, Inc ::
... autoimmune related diseases. The American Autoimmune Related Diseases ... General Hospital (MGH) have made significant progress by curing type 1 diabetes ...
- Potential Diabetes Treatment Selectively Kills Autoimmune Cells From ...
Type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases are caused when the body's immune ... materials provided by Massachusetts General Hospital. Email or share this ...
- Autoimmune Diseases
These include diabetes and thyroid disease. A neurologist, who ... Arthritis--A general term for more than 100 different diseases that affect the joints. ...
- Th1-driven autoimmune diseases
cells in type 1 diabetes)? General Overview: We know that autoimmune diseases are MHC-linked. ... diabetes mellitus, or IDDM) is an autoimmune disease ...
- Diagnose-Me: Autoimmune Disease
"Autoimmune diseases in general have a higher prevalence of gluten intolerance... diabetes, autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, ...
- Diabetes: The Toxin Connection :: Diabetes Self-Management
... Management's Quinn Phillips talked with Nakazawa about how autoimmune diseases ... a diabetes clearinghouse, but for autoimmune disease in general, we're going ...
- "Birds of a Feather Flock Together": Type 1A Diabetes and Other ...
How common are other autoimmune diseases in patients with type 1A diabetes? ... autoimmune disorder is 30-50 times that in the general population.9 Screening ...

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