Bob Saget raised awareness about autoimmune disease after his sister's death
magazine in 2019:"My sister, Gay Saget, was a school teacher near Philadelphia. She was 44 when she was diagnosed with systemic scleroderma.
Saget was on the board of directors for the Scleroderma Research Foundation for over a decade and had hosted their events for around 25 years. Estimates on prevalence vary. The American College of Rheumatology states that around 75,000 to 100,000 people in the U.S. have the disease, mostly women between the ages of 30 and 50. However, the National Scleroderma Foundation states that an estimated 300,000 Americans have the disease.
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