Effects of Health Status on Autoantibody Count.

Several diseased groups (Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, breast cancer and multiple sclerosis) and the corresponding age-and-gender matched controls were studied. The age (mean ± standard deviation), percentage of female subjects, number of positive autoantibodies (mean ± standard deviation) are shown for each group. The difference of the autoantibody counts between diseased and corresponding control groups were tested by student t test with p value shown.