Diagnostic Criteria in Autoimmune Diseases

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shoenfeld, Yehuda (Editor), Cervera, Ricard (Editor), Gershwin, M. Eric (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2008.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Internal medicine.; Rheumatology.; Biomedicine.; Internal Medicine.

According to the Autoimmune Diseases Coordinating Committee (ADCC), between 14.7 and 23.5 million people in the USA–up to eight percent of the population–are affected by autoimmune disease. Autoimmune diseases are a family of more than 100 chronic, and often disabling, illnesses that develop when un...