Does obesity trigger chronic inflammation?

摘要

Overweight people show symptoms of chronic, low-grade inflammation—perhaps indicating early atherosclerosis, a major government study finds. Dutch epidemiologist Marjolein Visser of the Free University in Amsterdam collaborated with scientists at the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Md., to analyze health data from 16,600 U.S. adults. These people had been studied between 1988 and 1994 as part of the third National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES III), a massive federal program to measure health indicators in a cross section of the U.S. population.