Figure 1.

Prevalence of (the combination of) various autoimmune diseases. Depicted are the prevalences of single autoimmune diseases (one dot) as well as combinations of those autoimmune diseases (multiple dots) in individuals for women (upper part of the bar) and men (lower part of the bar). The left Y-axis depicts the number of individuals for MSK, GI, neurological, RF, and the combination of MSK and GI. On the right Y-axis, the numbers are depicted for the other combinations of diseases. Rheumatic fever included rheumatic fever without heart involvement. Neurological disorders included multiple sclerosis and myasthenia gravis. Gastrointestinal disorders included Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. MSK disorders included rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic and enteropathic arthropathies, systemic lupus erythematosus, dermatopolymyositis, systemic sclerosis, ankylosing spondylitis, and Paget’s disease. GI, gastrointestinal disordes; MSK, musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders; RF, rheumatic fever.