Assertion: autoimmune disease | /r/CapableOf | affect the skin
Facets:
value: directly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Autoimmune diseases can thus affect a wide variety of bodily tissues and processes, such as the skin, liver, kidneys, or other organs, or the chemical reactions essential to metabolism.
text: For example, people with type 1 diabetes inject insulin, while those with autoimmune diseases that affect skin receive advice about the sun, bathing, creams and lotions.
text: In cats, autoimmune diseases that affect the skin directly are fairly rare, but other autoimmune disorders that are directed at internal organs can also cause skin problems.
text: Symptoms may be vague, and autoimmune diseases can present themselves in so many different ways, affecting the thyroid, the brain, the skin, or other organs.
text: Autoimmune diseases can affect skin, connective tissue, nerves, muscles, the endocrine system (the system that controls hormones and other chemicals), red blood cells, and the digestive system.