What is the difference between “autoimmune” diseases and “immune-mediated diseases?
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autoimmune diseases occur when your immune system mistakenly attacks your own body’s healthy cells, tissues, or organs. immune-mediated diseases, on the other hand, involve an abnormal immune response that can target either your own body or external factors. while all autoimmune diseases are immune-mediated, not all immune-mediated diseases are autoimmune. the key difference is that autoimmune diseases specifically involve self-targeting, while immune-mediated diseases have a broader scope of immune system dysfunction
Auto-immunite disease: disease caused by an immune response to something that is “self”, and which normally shouldn’t invoke an immune response
Immune mediated disease: disease caused by abnormal or excessive immune response to something which normally shouldn’t invoke an immune response or shouldn’t invoke such an excessive response. This includes auto-immune diseases.
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