From depression to dementia, inflammation is medicine’s new frontier

hinterland · Jan 20, 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/19/inflammation-depression-mind-body

Unlikely as it may seem, #inflammation has become a hashtag. It seems to be everywhere suddenly, up to all sorts of tricks. Rather than simply being on our side, fighting infections and healing wounds, it turns out to have a dark side as well: the role it plays in causing us harm.

It’s now clear that inflammation is part of the problem in many, if not all, diseases of the body. And targeting immune or inflammatory causes of disease has led to a series of breakthroughs, from new treatments for rheumatoid arthritis and other auto-immune diseases in the 1990s, through to the advent of immunotherapy for some cancers in the 2010s. Even more pervasively, low-grade inflammation, detectable only by blood tests, is increasingly considered to be part of the reason why common life experiences such as poverty, stress, obesity or ageing are bad for public health.
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Arnie Pye · Jan 20, 2020

Even more pervasively, low-grade inflammation, detectable only by blood tests
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Can anyone tell me which blood tests those would be? I would assume CRP? And possibly ESR?

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