That's one example but these inflammatory responses are also linked to a bunch of diseases. I hope that is a helpful answer.
That's one example but these inflammatory responses are also linked to a bunch of diseases. I hope that is a helpful answer.
From the 'article' you linked to:
> Obesity and its constant companion, type 2 diabetes, are at epidemic proportions in this country. One thing that connects them is inflammation.
How is this not a most blatant case of 'correlation vs causation'? We know the causes of obesity AND type 2 diabetes. Surely inflammation, a cellular immune thing ... is just a correlating factor?
So yeah, the causality is actually circular, which in the context of human health implies that a snowball effect is in fact occurring. Escaping this feedback loop is the hard part that we are still working on in the lab.