C-Reactive Protein Mediates the Effect of Serum Progesterone on Obesity for Men and Postmenopausal Women in Henan Rural Cohort Study.
Luting NieDandan WeiPengling LiuLi ZhangKeliang FanYu SongMian WangLulu WangQingqing XuJuan WangXiaotian LiuLinlin LiZhenxing MaoHui HuangChongjian WangWenqian HuoPublished in: Journal of inflammation research (2021)
In the Chinese rural men and postmenopausal women population, progesterone and C-reactive protein are related to obesity. We firstly found C-reactive protein partly mediates the effect of progesterone on obesity, indicating that systemic inflammation played a critical role in the association.