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Same paragraph appears twice

The section causes is a copy of part of the introduction section. George Albert Lee (talk) 19:24, 29 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The problem was that in the body of the text, most of that was not about causes, it was a list of examples/types. I shifted those two sentences to the Examples section and renamed it Types (someone with medical knowledge can fix that to a better word if types is not right). Boud (talk) 10:15, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistent numbers

In the introduction section it says that there's at least 80 types of autoimmune diseases, while in section causes it says that there's over 100.George Albert Lee (talk) 19:27, 29 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Chemicals etc. as cause

The article reads "Chemicals, which are either a part of our immediate environment or found in drugs, are key players in this context. Examples of such chemicals include hydrazines, hair dyes, trichloroethylene, tartrazines, hazardous wastes, and industrial emissions."[39]

However, that link contains no such info. Therefore, the paragraph rally has no literature backing it. There is some connection of Parkinson's to chemicals, but you would then need to explain an autoimmune aspect of that. Tero111 (talk) 00:32, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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