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Inflammation and inflammatory biomarkers are related because inflammatory biomarkers serve as indicators of inflammation processes. [1] explicitly connects them by noting that smoking triggers an immunologic response leading to inflammation, with inflammatory markers predicting future cardiovascular events.
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referenceThe National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) published 'Smoking and inflammation: the cause and consequences of inflammation' in the American Journal of Physiology in 2005, which notes that smoking triggers an immunologic response and that inflammatory markers predict future cardiovascular events.