{"id":243732,"date":"2026-09-07T17:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/atherosclerosis-may-meet-key-criteria-for-autoimmune-disease-evidence-suggests"},"modified":"2026-09-07T17:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:06:20","slug":"atherosclerosis-may-meet-key-criteria-for-autoimmune-disease-evidence-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/atherosclerosis-may-meet-key-criteria-for-autoimmune-disease-evidence-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Atherosclerosis may meet key criteria for autoimmune disease, evidence suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/atherosclerosis-may-meet-key-criteria-for-autoimmune-disease-evidence-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In autoimmune diseases, the immune system turns against the body through pathogenic high-affinity B cells or T cells, leading to severe organ damage. Multiple sclerosis (nervous system paralysis), type 1 diabetes (a strong risk factor for atherosclerosis requiring lifelong treatment) and rheumatoid arthritis (debilitating, excruciating joint deformities) are examples of clinically important autoimmune diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Despite decades of international research efforts, no such defining criteria have been documented for atherosclerosis. Research by an international consortium\u2014led by Professor Andreas Habenicht at LMU University Hospital and Professor Changjun Yin at Sun-Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China\u2014now reports in <i>Nature Cardiovascular Research<\/i> that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44161-026-00864-w\" target=\"_blank\">according to its findings<\/a>, atherosclerosis satisfies crucial defining criteria of an autoimmune disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In autoimmune diseases, the immune system turns against the body through pathogenic high-affinity B cells or T cells, leading to severe organ damage. Multiple sclerosis (nervous system paralysis), type 1 diabetes (a strong risk factor for atherosclerosis requiring lifelong treatment) and rheumatoid arthritis (debilitating, excruciating joint deformities) are examples of clinically important autoimmune diseases. Despite [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}