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Blood Levels of Indicators of Lower Respiratory Tract Damage in Chronic Bronchitis in Patients with Abdominal Obesity.

Elena Vladimirovna KashtanovaYana Vladimirovna PolonskayaEugeniia Vitalievna StriukovaLiliia V ShcherbakovaEvgenii A KurtukovViktoriya Sergeevna ShramkoEkaterina Mikhailovna StakhnevaYuliya Igorevna Ragino
Published in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
In patients with chronic bronchitis and abdominal obesity, there is a decrease in the levels of SP-A, α1-antitrypsin, CC16 and an increase in the level of PARC compared with patients without abdominal obesity, which is probably due to the presence of an additional source of chronic inflammation associated with adipose tissue.
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