Enhancing NIH Research on Autoimmune Disease
- ISBN-10
- 0309688310
- ISBN-13
- 9780309688314
- Category
- Autoimmune diseases
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2023
- Author
- ENGINEERING NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES
Description
"Autoimmune diseases occur when the body's immune system malfunctions and mistakenly attacks healthy cells, tissues, and organs. Strong data on the incidence and prevalence of autoimmune diseases are limited, but a 2009 study estimated the prevalence of autoimmune diseases in the U.S. to be 7.6 to 9.4 percent, or 25 to 31 million people today. This estimate, however, includes only 29 autoimmune diseases, and it does not account for increases in prevalence in the last decade. By some counts, there are around 150 autoimmune diseases, which are lifelong chronic illnesses with no known cures. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was asked to assess the autoimmune disease research portfolio of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Enhancing NIH Research on Autoimmune Disease finds that while NIH has made impressive contributions to research on autoimmune diseases, there is an absence of a strategic NIH-wide autoimmune disease research plan and a need for greater coordination across the institutes and centers to optimize opportunities for collaboration. To meet these challenges, this report calls for the creation of an Office of Autoimmune Disease/Autoimmunity Research in the Office of the Director of NIH. The Office could facilitate NIH-wide collaboration, and engage in prioritizing, budgeting, and evaluating research. Enhancing NIH Research on Autoimmune Disease also calls for the establishment of long term systems to collect epidemiologic and surveillance data and long term studies (20+ years) to study disease across the life course. Finally, the report provides an agenda that highlights research needs that crosscut many autoimmune diseases, such as understanding the effect of environmental factors in initiating disease"--
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Supercharge Your Immune System: 100 Ways to Help Your Body Fight Illness, One Glass at a Time
By Ellen Brown, Karen Konopelski HensleySupercharge Your Immune System: 100 Ways to Help Your Body Fight Illness, One Glass at a Time
-
Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease
By John Morrow, David IsenbergAutoimmune Rheumatic Disease
-
Autoimmune Endocrine Disease
By P. Kendall-TaylorIncludes chapters covering the following topics: the basis of autoimmunity; infection and autoimmune endocrine diseases; thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy;and animal models of autoimmune endocrine disease and their uses in developing new ...
-
Autoimmune: The Cause and the Cure
By Annesse Brockley, Kristin UrdialesAutoimmune: The Cause and the Cure
-
Immune Modulation by Infectious Agents
By Joachim DennerImmune Modulation by Infectious Agents
-
Supercharge Your Immune System
Supercharge Your Immune System
-
Type 1 Diabetes in Adults: National Clinical Guideline for Diagnosis and Management in Primary and Secondary Care
By National Collaborating Centre for Chronic ConditionsGeneral education programmes Within an overall review of patient education models for diabetes ( not type-specific) one health technology assessment*^ reviewing four controlled trials of a range of education programmes including items ...
-
The Hidden Plague: A Field Guide for Surviving & Overcoming Hidradenitis Suppurativa
By Tara GrantDiscusses the skin condition hidradenitis supprativa and offers information on how to heal from it naturally.
-
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
By Susannah CahalanThis is Susannah's story of her terrifying descent into madness and the desperate hunt for a diagnosis, as, after dozens of tests and scans, baffled doctors concluded she should be confined in a psychiatric ward.
-
Autoimmune: The Cause and the Cure
By Annesse Brockley, Kristin Urdiales"This book identifies the cause and the cure for: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Lupus, Sjögren's, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Raynaud's, Rosacea, Myasthenia Gravis, Hashimoto's, Type 2 Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis and more."