71.   The tests provide further support for the hygiene hypothesis, which blames over-cleanliness for the inexorable rise in asthma and other autoimmune diseases in the West.

72.   The theory was that silicone leaking out of the implants caused connective-tissue disorders that in turn triggered autoimmune diseases producing symptoms such as weakness and fatigue.

73.   The vast majority of uveitis cases are due to an autoimmune disease, Nussenblatt said.

74.   They may get other autoimmune diseases but not diabetes.

75.   They act on the immune system, suppressing inflammation and runaway immune responses, like the ones that occur in allergies and autoimmune diseases.

76.   They work by taking aim at specific proteins that, when overproduced, cause some autoimmune diseases.

77.   This cellular mother load, as it were, could explain some cases of autoimmune disease in men.

78.   This fact has prompted the Food and Drug Administration to sanction studies on people, some of which now involve hundreds of patients with autoimmune diseases.

79.   This unwillingness to disarm, Boyd believes, may set the stage for autoimmune disease.

80.   This would explain why some autoimmune diseases occur years after that first flu-like infection and why some seem to wax and wane in severity.