Axial spondyloarthritis is a chronic (long-term) autoimmune disease. Normally, the immune system fights infections, but in autoimmune diseases, it attacks a person’s own body. In axial spondyloarthritis, the immune system causes damage to the spine.
Some people with more severe axial spondyloarthritis can see the damage to the joint between the spine and hip bones on an X-ray. This is called radiographic axial spondyloarthritis or ankylosing spondylitis. When the damage isn’t visible on X-ray, it is called non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis.
Around 1 in every 100 people have axial spondyloarthritis, that’s about 300 million people in the United States.
Anyone can have axial spondyloarthritis. But some people have a higher risk of having it.
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