The Process of Acute and Chronic Inflammation: Biomarkers and Their Relationship With Diseases

The Process of Acute and Chronic Inflammation: Biomarkers and Their Relationship With Diseases

Sedat Demir
ISBN13: 9781799835943|ISBN10: 1799835944|EISBN13: 9781799835967
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3594-3.ch001
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Demir, Sedat. "The Process of Acute and Chronic Inflammation: Biomarkers and Their Relationship With Diseases." Role of Nutrition in Providing Pro-/Anti-Inflammatory Balance: Emerging Research and Opportunities, edited by Uğur Günşen and Ramazan Mert Atan, IGI Global, 2020, pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3594-3.ch001

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Demir, S. (2020). The Process of Acute and Chronic Inflammation: Biomarkers and Their Relationship With Diseases. In U. Günşen & R. Atan (Eds.), Role of Nutrition in Providing Pro-/Anti-Inflammatory Balance: Emerging Research and Opportunities (pp. 1-23). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3594-3.ch001

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Demir, Sedat. "The Process of Acute and Chronic Inflammation: Biomarkers and Their Relationship With Diseases." In Role of Nutrition in Providing Pro-/Anti-Inflammatory Balance: Emerging Research and Opportunities, edited by Uğur Günşen and Ramazan Mert Atan, 1-23. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2020. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3594-3.ch001

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Abstract

Inflammation is a physiopathological process that has been known for a long time but its relation with acute and chronic diseases and its role in the development of disease is becoming better understood. Diabetes, hypertension, ischemic heart disease, various organ cancers, rheumatologic diseases, the most common diseases of the liver, lungs and kidneys are either closely related to inflammatory processes or are caused by direct inflammatory processes. In one aspect, the aging process is a progressive inflammatory process. The understanding of what inflammation is and the mechanisms by which the inflammation occurs in the organism and by accurately identifying and following the clinical markers that show the course of inflammation. In this section, basic issues related to inflammation is examined.

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