COPD as a Systemic Disease: Impact on Physical Functional Limitations

Disaggregating pain and its effect on physical functional limitations.

BACKGROUND Pain is a common impairment that limits the abilities of older persons. The purposes of this article are to: (i) describe the distribution of pain location using the McGill Pain Map (MPM) in a community-based cohort of aged subjects; (ii) investigate whether individual areas of pain could be sensibly grouped into regions of pain; (iii) determine whether intensity, frequency, and loca...

Systemic Functional Linguistics as a Tool of Text Analysis for Translation

Translation, ipso facto, is an understanding and a transferal of meaning from one language into another. Therefore, it may be fitting to conclude that a suitable semantic theory should underpin any attempt to that end. This paper advocates implementing Systemic Functional Linguistics (henceforth SFL) which subscribes to a view of language as a "meaning-potential". In fact, Halliday and Matthies...

Systemic White Blood Cell Count as a Biomarker for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Utility and Limitations

Physical activity, nutritional status and systemic inflammation in COPD.

T he European Respiratory Society (ERS) Research Seminar entitled ‘‘Physical activity, nutritional status and systemic inflammation in COPD’’ and organised by the "Clinical Physiology and Exercise" ERS scientific group 4.01, brought together international experts to discuss several important aspects of physical activity, nutritional status and inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disea...

[Atherosclerosis as a systemic disease].

Atherosclerosis is a widespread, chronic progressive disease that mainly involves medium-sized arteries. Clinically, it can become apparent as ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, or peripheral arterial disease. In Spain, atherosclerosis is responsible for 124,000 deaths each year. Despite the trend towards a reduction in the aged-adjusted mortality rate for cardiovascular disease, ...