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Autoimmune disease prevalence worldwide

connie dello buonoJuly 2, 2019anti-aging

	Hospital-based Data, Denmark^b	Hospital and non-Hospital- based Data
	Hospital-based Data, Denmark^b	Studies from Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand			Studies from Asia, Middle East, Caribbean, South America

Disease^a	Rate per 100,000	Rate per 100,000	Study Area	Reference	Rate per 100,000	Study Area	Reference
Addison	18	11–14	UK, Italy, Norway	[4–6]
Alopecia	21	1700	US	[7]
Celiac disease	50	180–350	Greece, Netherlands	[8,9]	140–280	Iran, Tunisia	[13–15]
		740–1000	Iceland, Italy	[10,11]	470–600	Brazil, Argentina	[16, 17]
		1900	Finland	[12]	900	Turkey	[18]
Crohn disease	225	28–53	Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary	[19,20]	6–53	Puerto Rico, Malaysia, Lebanon	[27–29]
Crohn disease		96–201	US, Spain, Denmark, New Zealand	[21–26]	113	Israel	[30]
Ulcerative colitis	378	143–294	US, Hungary, Denmark, New Zealand	[19,21–23,25, 26]	6	Lebanon	[29]
Ulcerative colitis	378	143–294	US, Hungary, Denmark, New Zealand	[19,21–23,25, 26]	102	Puerto Rico	[27]
Diabetes
All ages	946	118	Lithuania	[31]
All ages		340–570	UK, Sweden, Australia	[32–34]
Ages < 20		87–120	Spain, Germany	[35, 36]	31	Bahamas	[40]
Ages < 20		227–355	US, New Zealand	[37, 38]	110–270	Kuwait, Saudi Arabia	[41,42]
Ages < 20		70	US- American Indian	[39]
Liver – Chronic active hepatitis	45	11–17	Spain, Sweden, Norway	[43–45]	3–8	Singapore	[47]
Liver – Chronic active hepatitis		36	US-Alaska Natives	[46]
Liver – Primary biliary cirrhosis	12	15–40	Norway, Finland, Spain, UK,	[45,48–51]	4–18	Israel	[53]
Liver – Primary biliary cirrhosis		4–20	US Australia	[52]
Thyroid – Hyper	629	500	US	[54]	20	Iran	[56]
Thyroid – Hyper		626	UK	[55]
Thyroid – Hypo	62	300	US	[54]	350	Iran	[56]
Thyroid – Hypo		2980	UK	[55]
Multiple sclerosis	182	177–358	US, Canada	[57–60]	4–20	Colombia, Brazil, Argentina	[72–74]
		100	Canada-First Nations	[60]	13	Japan	[75]
		121–200	Italy, Greece, France, Ireland,	[61–69]	11–62	Israel, Kuwait, Jordan, Iran	[76–79]
		46	Norway	[70]	101	Turkey	[80]
		50	Portugal New Zealand	[71]
Myasthenia gravis	18	8–15	Greece, Estonia, Croatia	[81–83]	3	Colombia	[87, 88]
Myasthenia gravis			Netherlands, Sweden, UK	[84–86]	7	Curacuo and Aruba
Polymyalgia rheumatica	112	739^b	US	[89, 90]
Polymyalgia rheumatica		150–370^b	Greece	[91]
Psoriasis	197	696–1527	US, UK	[92, 93]
Psoriatic arthritis		57	Greece	[94]
		140–190	Iceland, Norway, Denmark, US	[95–98]
		500	Australia-Aboriginie	[99]
Rheumatoid arthritis	381	310–810	France, Hungary, Spain, Turkey, Greece, UK	[91,100–105]	120–280	Thailand, Phillipines, Vietnam, China	[106–109]
					510–550	India, Pakistan, Argentina	[110]
					197	India, Pakistan, Argentina	[111]
Sjögren disease	48	3500	UK	[112]	330–770	China	[118]
		110	Denmark (ages 30–60)	[113]	720–1560	Turkey (women)	[119]
		93–150	Greece	[91,114,115]
		600	Greece – (women)	[116]
		600	Slovenia	[117]
Systemic sclerosis	23	5–34	France, Greece, Spain, Italy, US	[120–125]	20–24	Australia	[127]
Systemic sclerosis		10–66	US-Native Americans	[126]	30	Phillipines	[107]
Systemic lupus erythematosus	32	34–150	US, Spain, Greece	[128–131]	19	Saudi Arabia	[133]
		42	Canada-1^stNations	[132]	45	Australia	[134]
					93	Australia-aboriginal	[134]
Systemic vasculitis		9–14	France, UK	[135, 136]	10	Australia	[137]
Wegener granulo-matosis	10	2–10	France, Norway, Australia, New Zealand	[135, 137–140]
Uveitis (iridocycltis)	149	69–115	US, Finland	[141–143]	730	India	[144]
Vitiligo	29				93	China	[145]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783422/

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