Table 1 Number of cases hospitalizations of IMD and related conditions, 1987-2008

Immune-mediated disease

No

%

No

%

No

%

Addison disease

862

1.05

1190

0.89

2052

0.95

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

2376

2.89

2055

1.53

4431

2.05

Ankylosing spondylitis

2416

2.94

1061

0.79

3477

1.61

Autoimmune hemolytic anemia

312

0.38

391

0.29

703

0.33

Behcet disease

146

0.18

138

0.10

284

0.13

Celiac disease

2639

3.21

4249

3.17

6888

3.18

Chorea minor

10

0.01

25

0.02

35

0.02

Crohn disease

9522

11.58

10700

7.98

20222

9.35

Diabetes mellitus type I

9068

11.02

7664

5.72

16732

7.74

Discoid lupus erythematosus

54

0.07

200

0.15

254

0.12

Grave disease

3764

4.58

18298

13.65

22062

10.20

Hashimoto thyroiditis

1440

1.75

5115

3.82

6555

3.03

Immune thrombocytopenic purpura

1905

2.32

2039

1.52

3944

1.82

Localized scleroderma

90

0.11

422

0.31

512

0.24

Lupoid hepatitis

115

0.14

274

0.20

389

0.18

Multiple sclerosis

3492

4.25

6892

5.14

10384

4.80

Myasthenia gravis

935

1.14

1149

0.86

2084

0.96

Pernicious anemia

1663

2.02

1868

1.39

3531

1.63

Polyarteritis nodosa

437

0.53

386

0.29

823

0.38

Polymyalgia rheumatica

5313

6.46

11183

8.34

16496

7.63

Polymyositis/dermatomyositis

404

0.49

667

0.50

1071

0.50

Primary biliary cirrhosis

124

0.15

675

0.50

799

0.37

Psoriasis

4471

5.44

4558

3.40

9029

4.17

Reiter disease

280

0.34

58

0.04

338

0.16

Rheumatic fever

236

0.29

228

0.17

464

0.21

Rheumatoid arthritis

12080

14.69

32531

24.27

44611

20.63

Sarcoidosis

2847

3.46

2518

1.88

5365

2.48

Sjören syndrome

125

0.15

1175

0.88

1300

0.60

Systemic lupus erythematosus

742

0.90

3437

2.56

4179

1.93

Systemic sclerosis

402

0.49

1356

1.01

1758

0.81

Ulcerative colitis

12963

15.76

10647

7.94

23610

10.92

Wegener granulomatosis

1025

1.25

884

0.66

1909

0.88

All

82258

100.00

134033

100.00

216291

100.00