Sentences with phrase «inflammatory autoimmune attacks»

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is among the most common neurological diseases in young adults, affecting 350 000 individuals in the United States and 2 million worldwide.1 Prevailing thought is that MS is an autoimmune disorder whereby an unknown agent or agents triggers a T cell — mediated inflammatory attack, causing demyelination of central nervous system tissue.2

The problem emerges when an inflammatory attack is not resolved and becomes chronic, as occurs in almost every inflammatory disease, including heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's Disease — or when it targets the wrong cells, as is the case in autoimmune conditions such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD).

In the case of autoimmune disease, components of the inflammatory response that are meant to attack and destroy invaders turn on the body's own tissues and cells.

Fearful people are more likely to get heart attacks, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, inflammatory disorders, chronic pain and even the common cold.

Autoimmune conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and inflammatory bowel disease, arise when the body's immune system goes awry and begins attacking healthy cells and tissue.

This can trigger many different inflammatory disorders and autoimmune disease, a disease in which the immune system attacks and destroys body tissue.

Ulcerative colitis (UC), like Crohn's disease, is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), an autoimmune condition in which the immune system attacks the intestines.

So rather than experiencing frank viral diseases such as the «flu, measles, mumps and rubella (and, in the case of dogs, parvovirus and distemper), we are allowing the viruses to win anyway — but with cancer, leukaemia and other inflammatory or autoimmune (self - attacking) diseases taking their place.

Alternatively, a deranged immune response will lead to inflammatory conditions such as arthritis, pancreatitis, colitis, encephalitis and any number of autoimmune diseases such as cancer and leukaemia, where the body attacks its own cells.