How to Use autoimmune in a Sentence

autoimmune

adjective
  • Even a small crumb of gluten can cause an autoimmune reaction.
    — Karla Walsh, Bon Appetit Magazine, 11 July 2025
  • This guy has an autoimmune disease.
    — ABC News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The researchers then looked for signs of an autoimmune response.
    — Elaine Chen Reprints, STAT, 5 May 2023
  • This can range from weight and mental health to brain function and autoimmune disease risk.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • There are a handful of autoimmune diseases that can cause chronic hives.
    — New York Times, 9 May 2022
  • But some autoimmune diseases are fueled by more than one cytokine.
    — Stephanie Watso, SELF, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Can autoimmune disease kill you?
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Gasparro has lupus, an autoimmune disease that caused sores to break out on his nose and ears.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Most of them need new livers because they were born with autoimmune diseases or birth defects.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 13 May 2022
  • Rudolph got sick in her mid-20s, and said mold was one of the triggers that led to her autoimmune illness.
    — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • This autoimmune disorder that causes dry, scaly, and itchy skin.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 7 Oct. 2025
  • People with one autoimmune disease are at a higher risk for others.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The autoimmune diet that works best will vary depending on the person.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Her autoimmune disease affects her joints, muscles and skin.
    — Jason Kane, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Crohn’s is just one of the many autoimmune diseases that are inherited.
    — Annie Lane, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2023
  • That means people [going] through chemo or who have autoimmune diseases, and health issues like that can use them.
    — Gillian Telling, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Many scientists now think both these subtypes are autoimmune.
    — Ruth Jessen Hickman, Health, 10 Feb. 2026
  • That stress can lead you to pick at the rash on your hair or skin and even result in autoimmune bald spots, which are called alopecia areata.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 27 July 2022
  • One of those drugs, methotrexate, is used to treat autoimmune disorders and cancer.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 14 July 2022
  • This is an autoimmune condition in which the body does not recognize its own cells and attacks them.
    — Merve Ceylan, Health, 27 Aug. 2025
  • As a result, autoimmune diseases can quietly hide in plain sight.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Bobo hobbled along the sideline last season with numbness in his feet caused by an autoimmune disease.
    — Pat Graham, The Denver Post, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Women mount a stronger response to viruses yet are more prone to autoimmune diseases, such as lupus.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 4 Sep. 2024
  • What does the study say about vitamin D and fish oil, and their effects on autoimmune diseases?
    — Alyssa Hui, Health.com, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The cause of lupus has long escaped doctors trying to treat the autoimmune disease.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
  • Last year, her daughter — James' sister — died of an autoimmune disease.
    — Lawrence Andrea, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Oct. 2020
  • This autoimmune disease can target and attack organs in your body, like the kidney.
    — Heidi Cope, Health, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The actress has continued to be open about her journey with the autoimmune disease.
    — Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Lupus is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks healthy cells.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 26 Jan. 2023
  • It is now known that CH occurs in some younger patients, such as those with autoimmune diseases.
    — Salvatore Viscomi, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023

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