Inflammation initiates a vicious cycle between obesity and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
Yunfei LuoHui LinPublished in: Immunity, inflammation and disease (2020)
Low-level of chronic inflammation activation is characteristic of obesity. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is closely linked to obesity and is an emerging health problem, it originates from abnormal accumulation of triglycerides in the liver, and sometimes causes inflammatory reactions that could contribute to cirrhosis and liver cancer, thus its pathogenesis needs to be clarified for more treatment options. Once NAFLD is established, it contributes to systemic inflammation, the low-grade inflammation is continuously maintained during NAFLD causing impaired resolution of inflammation in obesity, which subsequently exacerbates its severity. This study focuses on the effects of obesity-induced inflammations, which are the underlying causes of the disease progression and development of more severe inflammatory and fibrotic stages. Understanding the relationship between obesity and NAFLD could help in establishing attractive therapeutic targets or diagnostic markers in obesity-induced inflammation response and provides new approaches for the prevention and treatment of NAFLD in obesity.
Keyphrases
- insulin resistance
- metabolic syndrome
- weight loss
- oxidative stress
- high fat diet induced
- type diabetes
- weight gain
- low grade
- healthcare
- public health
- skeletal muscle
- adipose tissue
- mental health
- early onset
- systemic sclerosis
- idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- body mass index
- health information
- climate change
- smoking cessation
- social media
- replacement therapy
- endothelial cells
- liver fibrosis
- high density