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Please feel free to add the profile of anyone living with or who lived with Hashimoto's Disease (also called Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, or autoimmune thyroiditis.)== What is Hashimoto's Disease? Hashimoto's disease is an autoimmune disorder in which your immune system creates antibodies that damage your thyroid gland. Causes Doctors don't know what causes your ...
If the Cause of Death on the Death Certificate was “Rheumatism” or "Rheumatoid Arthritis," please add the profile to this project.== ===If Arthritis or Rheumatoid Arthritis contributed to, but was NOT the primary cause of death, please see: Rheumatoid Arthritis (Living with) in the Medical Portal under Autoimmune Diseases.=== ===If this project leads to a need for another project, please addres...
Please feel free to add the profile of anyone living with or who lived with Rheumatoid Arthritis== ===What is Rheumatoid Arthritis?=== Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system – which normally protects its health by attacking foreign substances like bacteria and viruses – mistakenly attacks the joints . This creates inflammation that causes the tissue...
Please do NOT add profiles to this UMBRELLA project for Autoimmune diseases.== ===Please add profiles to the project in the Cause of Death portal if an Autoimmune disease was the PRIMARY cause of death.======Please add profiles to the specific disease in the Medical Portal otherwise.=== Please see this discussion: Cause of Death Projects needed??? if you do not see a project for an Autoimmune D...
Please feel free to add a profile(s) here unless you would like a project created for the genetically linked disorder== ===Some of the Disorders listed below have Geni projects & will have links to projects in the Cause of Death portal (CoD) & the Medical Portal (MP). === ===If you would like to have a project made for any genetic linked disorder, please see:===* Cause of Death Projects needed?...
Please add profiles for those who have or had Lupus.==* If Lupus was a CONTRIBUTING factor in the cause of death, please add the profile to this project. If the PRIMARY Cause of Death was Lupus, please add the profile here: Cause of Death portal . * If no project (none as of 5/16/18), please leave a message/request in this discussion: Cause of Death Projects needed??? The Lupus Foundation of Am...
Please add the profiles of those who have or had Addison’s Disease.== If they died with Addison’s Disease as the primary cause of death, please leave a message in this discussion: Cause of Death Projects needed??? Addison's disease , identified in the 1850’s by Thomas Addison, is also known as primary adrenal insufficiency and hypocortisolism . It is a long-term endocrine disorder in which the ...
Please add people who have died as a result of Myasthenia Gravis, or a complication of it.== ===You may also add people who have been diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis but may have survived &/or died of another cause.=== Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a long-term, chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease that causes weakness in the skeletal muscles, which are responsible for breathing and moving part...
Please feel free to add the profile of anyone living with or who lived with Sjogren’s syndrome. == Sjogren's (SHOW-grins) syndrome (SS) is a disorder of your immune system identified by its two most common symptoms — dry eyes and a dry mouth.The condition often accompanies other immune system disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus. In Sjogren's syndrome, the mucous membranes and mois...