Epidemiology and estimated population burden of selected autoimmune diseases in the United States

Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 223-243

  Jacobson, Denise L ^a   Gange, Stephen J ^a   Rose, Noel R ^a   Graham, Neil M H ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDISON DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHRONIC ACTIVE HEPATITIS; DERMATOMYOSITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GOODPASTURE SYNDROME; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; INCIDENCE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; MYOCARDITIS; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; POLYMYOSITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSING POLYCHONDRITIS; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCLERODERMA; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THYROIDITIS; UNITED STATES; UVEITIS; VITILIGO;

EID: 0031240055     PISSN: 00901229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/clin.1997.4412     Document Type: Review

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