Systemic Inflammation and Lung Function Impairment in Morbidly Obese Subjects with the Metabolic Syndrome

Background. Obesity and asthma are associated. There is a relationship between lung function impairment and the metabolic syndrome. Whether this relationship also exists in the morbidly obese patients is still unknown. Hypothesis. Low-grade systemic inflammation associated with the metabolic syndrom...

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Main Authors: Astrid van Huisstede, Manuel Castro Cabezas, Erwin Birnie, Gert-Jan M. van de Geijn, Arjan Rudolphus, Guido Mannaerts, Tjin L. Njo, Pieter S. Hiemstra, Gert-Jan Braunstahl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-01-01
Series:Journal of Obesity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/131349
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