Obesity causes fat cells to die, which attracts inflammatory cells to the site to clean up the debris, worsening inflammation.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: Vanderbilt University
  The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of Inflammation

Sources

• The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of Inflammation medschool.vanderbilt.edu Vanderbilt University via serper

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• inflammation concept
• obesity concept
• inflammatory cells concept