Undurti N. Das

2011

Several studies have suggested that low-grade systemic inflammation plays a significant role in the pathogenesis of obesity, insulin resistance, essential hypertension, type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemia, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases, schizophrenia, depression, Alzheimer’s disease and cancer.