What autoimmune diseases cause anemia of chronic disease?
What autoimmune diseases cause anemia of chronic disease?
The following autoimmune diseases may cause anemia of chronic disease:
- Rheumatoid arthritis: chronic inflammation of joints.
- Systemic lupus erythematosus (or lupus): tissue damage from an immune system attack on your body.
- Vasculitis: an inflammation of blood vessels.
- Sarcoidosis: an inflammatory disease that commonly affects the lung and lymph glands, most likely caused by an abnormal immune response.
- Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis), which affects the intestines.
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
- Any type of infection.