What is systemic disease?
A systemic disease is a health problem that affects one or more body systems (for example, respiratory, immunological, neurological, digestive and other types of systems are affected).
The degree of complaint characteristic of systemic disease may change over time.
Some pathological processes significantly reduce the patient's quality of life, level of functioning. In some clinical cases, the symptoms have an episodic character, however, due to some diagnoses and acute course, the patients' activity is significantly limited.
Examples of systemic diseases are:
- Epilepsy;
- Lupus;
- Diabetes;
- Chronic fatigue syndrome;
- Multiple sclerosis;
- Cancer;
- Fibromyalgia;
- Cystic fibrosis;
- Heart disease;
- Stroke;
- Asthma;
- Crohn's disease;
- Muscular dystrophy and others.
Of course, each disease has its own characteristic symptoms, however, several symptoms are combined with systemic pathologies, namely:
- Temperature;
- Trembling;
- Fever;
- Loss of appetite;
- Weight loss;
- Fatigue;
- Dizziness;
- Shortness of breath.
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