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Symptoms of autoimmune disease vary widely depending on the type of disease. A group of very nonspecific symptoms often accompany autoimmune diseases especially of the collagen vascular type and include:
Specific autoimmune disease results in:
- destruction of an organ or tissue resulting in decreased functioning of an organ or tissue (for example, the islet cells of the pancreas are destroyed in diabetes )
- increase in size of an organ or tissue (for example, thyroid enlargement in Grave's Disease)
Note: Symptoms vary with the specific disorder and the organ or tissue affected.
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