“…48 studies including 61 independent comparisons involved patients with chronic non-autoimmune disease as subjects [19]–[21], [35]–[39], [42]–[44], [46]–[48], [50], [52], [53], [56], [58]–[63], [65], [67], [68], [70]–[78], [80], [83], [84], [86], [88], [89], [92], [94]–[98], 2 studies including 2 independent comparisons involved patients with chronic auto-immune disease as subjects [57], [93], and 17 studies including 22 independent comparisons involved healthy people as subjects [22], [40], [41], [49], [51], [54], [55], [64], [66], [69], [79], [81], [82], [85], [87], [90], [91]. In addition, one study including one independent comparison recruited both subjects with chronic non-autoimmune disease and subjects with chronic autoimmune disease [45].…”