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Study Ties Obesity, Inflammation to Heart Failure
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Heart specialists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere report what is believed to be the first widescale evidence linking severe overweight to prolonged inflammation of heart tissue and the subsequent damage leading to failure of the body’s blood-pumping organ.
Read More...Inflammation, Obesity, Stress and Coronary Heart Disease: Is Interleukin-6 the Link?
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There is mounting evidence that inflammation plays a role in the development of coronary heart disease (CHD). Observations have been made linking the presence of infections in the vessel wall with atherosclerosis, and epidemiological data also implicate infection in remote sites in the aetiology of CHD.
Read More...How Inflammation Affects Your Weight
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What is inflammation,and what does it have to do with being overweight? Remarkable new research links obesity and inflammation. Being overweight promotes inflammation and inflammation promotes obesity in a terrible, vicious cycle. More than half of Americans are inflamed, and most of them don’t know it. Getting to the root of inflammation and cooling it off is key to reducing the obesity epidemic and your own waist size.
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