Respiratory System (J00-J99)
- Bronchial asthma
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which mainly affects older people who have smoked. COPD is a mixed picture of chronic obstructive bronchitis (inflammation of the bronchi of the lungs) and emphysema (abnormal increase in the air content of the lungs).
Blood, blood-forming organs – immune system (D50-D90).
- Anemia (anemia)
- Autoimmune diseases, unspecified
Endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases (E00-E90).
- Diabetes mellitus
- Hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid gland)
- Pituitary dysfunction – malfunction of the pituitary gland (pituitary gland).
- Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid gland).
- Malnutrition
- Adrenal insufficiency (adrenal insufficiency)
Cardiovascular system (I00-I99)
- Heart failure (cardiac insufficiency)
Infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99).
- Infectious diseases such as tuberculosis (consumption).
Liver, gallbladder, and bile ducts-pancreas (pancreas) (K70-K77; K80-K87).
- Liver damage such as cirrhosis (irreversible damage to the liver leading to gradual connective tissue remodeling of the liver with limitation of liver function)
Musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00-M99).
- Rheumatoid arthritis – chronic inflammatory joint disease.
Neoplasms – tumor diseases (C00-D48)
- Malignant neoplasms, unspecified (e.g., leukemias, lymphomas).
- Brain tumors, unspecified
Psyche – nervous system (F00-F99; G00-G99)
- Alcohol abuse
- Anxiety, unspecified
- Chronic fatigue syndrome (chronic fatigue syndrome; CFS; systemic stress intolerance disease).
- Depression
- Substance abuse
- Fatigue syndrome (after tumor disease)
- Drug abuse
- Myasthenia gravis (MG; synonyms: myasthenia gravis pseudoparalytica; MG); rare neurological autoimmune disease in which specific antibodies against the acetylcholine receptors are present, with characteristic symptoms such as an abnormal load-dependent and painless muscle weakness, an asymmetry, in addition to the local also a temporal variability (fluctuation) in the course of hours, days or Weeks, an improvement after recovery or rest periods; clinically can be differentiated a purely ocular (“concerning the eye”), a faciopharyngeal (face (Facies) and pharynx (pharynx) concerning) emphasized and a generalized myasthenia; about 10% of cases already show a manifestation in childhood.
- Neurodegenerative diseases (eg, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease and Huntington’s disease).
- Sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) – clinical picture caused by periodic breathing disturbances (apneas) and/or reduced ventilation of the lungs (alveolar hypoventilation)) during sleep; patients usually complain of non-restorative sleep with daytime sleepiness and increased daytime sleepiness
- Sleep deprivation or insomnia (sleep disorders).
- Stress
Medication
- See “Cause” under medications