Type of diseases

Subject: Science and tech

Context:

Apart from discovered symptoms of respiratory troubles, Coronavirus has now known to cause blood clots, kidney damage etc.

Concept:

Pulmonary disease

• It is type of disease that affects the lungs and other parts of the respiratory system.
• Pulmonary diseases may be caused by infection, by smoking tobacco, or by breathing in secondhand tobacco smoke, radon, asbestos, or other forms of air pollution.
• Pulmonary diseases include asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pulmonary fibrosis, pneumonia, and lung cancer. Also called lung disorder and respiratory disease.

Vascular disease

• Vascular disease is any abnormal condition of the blood vessels (arteries and veins).
• The body uses blood vessels to circulate blood through itself. Problems along this vast network can cause severe disability and death.
• Vascular diseases outside the heart can “present” themselves anywhere.
• The most common vascular diseases are stroke, peripheral artery disease (PAD), pulmonary embolism (blood clots), deep vein thrombosis (DVT).

Systemic disease

• A systemic disease is one that affects a number of organs and tissues, or affects the body as a whole
• Examples: Rheumatoid arthritis, Sickle cell disease