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2. Inflammation - Wikipedia

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   Inflammation is a generic response, and therefore is considered a mechanism of innate immunity, whereas adaptive immunity is specific to each pathogen. [3] Inflammation is a protective response involving immune cells, blood vessels, and molecular mediators. The function of inflammation is to eliminate the initial cause of cell injury, clear out ...

3. 5 Signs You Have Inflammation in Your Body - AOL

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   Your doctor may check the levels of C-reactive protein, fibrinogen or circulating antibodies in your blood as well as your complete blood count (CBC) which measures the amount of each cell type in ...

4. How To Know If You're Experiencing Inflammaging - AOL

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   Did you know: While there are certain pro-inflammatory markers that can be tested in the blood to assess general inflammation, they’re used for research purposes and not commercial testing, says ...

5. Biomarker (medicine) - Wikipedia

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   For example, body temperature is a well-known biomarker for fever. Blood pressure is used to determine the risk of stroke. It is also widely known that cholesterol values are a biomarker and risk indicator for coronary and vascular disease, and that C-reactive protein is a marker for inflammation.

6. Acute-phase protein - Wikipedia

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   Inflammatory cells and red blood cells. Acute-phase proteins (APPs) are a class of proteins whose concentrations in blood plasma either increase (positive acute-phase proteins) or decrease (negative acute-phase proteins) in response to inflammation. This response is called the acute-phase reaction (also called acute-phase response).

7. Low levels of biomarker could predict heart disease risk in ...

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   Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is strongly linked to inflammation, and inflammatory markers may indicate whether someone is at risk of developing CVD. Anti-inflammatory antibodies are associated ...

8. Systemic inflammation - Wikipedia

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   Chronic systemic inflammation (SI) is the result of release of pro-inflammatory cytokines from immune-related cells and the chronic activation of the innate immune system.It can contribute to the development or progression of certain conditions such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, autoimmune and neurodegenerative ...

9. Simple blood test could predict a person’s heart disease risk ...

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   Ridker and his team found that in addition to LDL cholesterol, two other markers — a type of fat in the blood called lipoprotein (a), or Lp(a), and an indicator of inflammation — are important ...