Autoimmune and chronic diseases affect a large segment of the population.  There are two type of autoimmune diseases:  systemic and localized.  MedicineNet.com defines autoimmune diseases as:

"An illness that occurs when the body tissues are attacked by its own immune system. The immune system is a complex organization within the body that is designed normally to "seek and destroy" invaders of the body, including infectious agents. Patients with autoimmune diseases frequently have unusual antibodies circulating in their blood that target their own body tissues.

Examples of autoimmune diseases include systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjogren syndrome, Hashimoto thyroiditis, rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile (type 1) diabetes, polymyositis, scleroderma, Addison disease, vitiligo, pernicious anemia, glomerulonephritis, and pulmonary fibrosis.

Autoimmune diseases are more frequent in women than in men. It is felt that the estrogen of females may influence the immune system to predispose some women to autoimmune diseases. Furthermore, the presence of one autoimmune disease increases the chance for developing another simultaneous autoimmune disease"

Autoimmune Diseases: Overview

Autoimmune Disorders

List of Autoimmune Diseases

• Acute necrotizing hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis
• Addison’s disease
• Agammaglobulinemia
• Allergic asthma
• Allergic rhinitis
• Alopecia areata
• Amyloidosis
• Ankylosing spondylitis
• Anti-GBM/Anti-TBM nephritis
• Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS)
• Autoimmune aplastic anemia
• Autoimmune dysautonomia
• Autoimmune hepatitis
• Autoimmune hyperlipidemia
• Autoimmune immunodeficiency
• Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED)
• Autoimmune myocarditis
• Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura (ATP)
• Axonal & neuronal neuropathies
• Baló disease
• Behçet’s disease
• Bullous pemphigoid
• Cardiomyopathy
• Castleman disease
• Celiac sprue (nontropical)
• Chagas’ disease
• Chronic fatigue syndrome**
• Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP)
• Churg-Strauss syndrome
• Cicatricial pemphigoid/benign mucosal pemphigoid
• Crohn’s disease
• Cogan’s syndrome
• Cold agglutinin disease
• Congenital heart block
• Coxsackie myocarditis
• CREST disease
• Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia
• Demyelinating neuropathies
• Dermatomyositis
• Devic disease
• Discoid lupus
• Dressler’s syndrome
• Endometriosis
• Eosinophilic fasciitis
• Erythema nodosum
• Experimental allergic encephalomyelitis
• Evan’s syndrome
• Fibromyalgia**
• Fibrosing alveolitis
• Giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis)
• Goodpasture’s syndrome
• Graves’ disease
• Guillain-Barré syndrome
• Hashimoto’s disease
• Hemolytic anemia
• Henoch-Schonlein purpura
• Herpes gestationis
• Hypogammaglobulinemia
• Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)
• IgA nephropathy
• Immunoregulatory lipoproteins
• Inclusion body myositis
• Insulin-dependent diabetes (type1)
• Interstitial cystitis
• Juvenile arthritis
• Juvenile diabetes
• Kawasaki syndrome
• Lambert-Eaton syndrome
• Leukocytoclastic vasculitis
• Lichen planus
• Lichen sclerosus
• Ligneous conjunctivitis
• Linear IgA disease (LAD)
• Lupus (SLE)
• Lyme disease
• Meniere’s disease
• Microscopic polyangiitis
• Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD)
• Mooren’s ulcer
• Mucha-Habermann disease
• Multiple sclerosis
• Myasthenia gravis
• Myositis
• Narcolepsy
• Neutropenia
• Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid
• Osteoarthritis
• Palindromic rheumatism
• Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
• Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
• Parsonnage-Turner syndrome
• Pars planitis (peripheral uveitis)
• Pemphigus
• Peripheral neuropathy
• Perivenous encephalomyelitis
• Pernicious anemia
• POEMS syndrome
• Polyarteritis nodosa
• Type I, II, & III autoimmune polyglandular syndromes
• Polymyalgia rheumatica
• Polymyositis
• Postmyocardial infarction syndrome
• Postpericardiotomy syndrome
• Progesterone dermatitis
• Primary biliary cirrhosis
• Psoriasis
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
• Pyoderma gangrenosum
• Pure red cell aplasia
• Raynaud’s phenomenon
• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
• Reiter’s syndrome
• Relapsing polychondritis
• Restless legs syndrome
• Rheumatic fever
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Sarcoidosis
• Schmidt syndrome
• Scleritis
• Scleroderma
• Sjögren’s syndrome
• Sperm & testicular autoimmunity
• Stiff person syndrome
• Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE)
• Sympathetic ophthalmia
• Takayasu’s arteritis
• Temporal arteritis/Giant cell arteritis
• Thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
• Autoimmune thyroid disease
• Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
• Transverse myelitis & necrotizing myelopathy
• Ulcerative colitis
• Undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD)
• Uveitis
• Vasculitis
• Vesiculobullous dermatosis
• Vitiligo
• Wegener’s granulomatosis

**NOTE Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue are listed, not because they are autoimmune, but because many persons who suffer from them have associated autoimmune disease(s).

Above list from: American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association

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