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Leptin Increases: Physiological Roles in the Control of Sympathetic Nerve Activity, Energy Balance, and the Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Thyroid Axis

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Iliofemoral Venous Pressure Correlates with Intraabdominal Pressure in Morbidly Obese Patients

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Long-term Protective Changes in Adipose Tissue After Gastric Bypass

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Omega-3, Omega-6 and Omega-9 Fatty Acids: Implications for Cardiovascular and Other Diseases

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Effect of weight loss through laparoscopic gastric banding on blood pressure, plasma renin activity and aldosterone levels in morbid obesity

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Weight loss reduces adipose tissue cathepsin S and its circulating levels in morbidly obese women

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Polyphenol-rich grape powder extract (GPE) attenuates inflammation in human macrophages and in human adipocytes exposed to macrophage-conditioned media

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Perilipin 1 Mediates Lipid Metabolism Homeostasis and Inhibits Inflammatory Cytokine Synthesis in Bovine Adipocytes

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Effect of body mass index on treatment response of biologic/targeted-synthetic DMARDs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis or axial spondyloarthritis. A systematic review

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The anti-diabetic AMPK activator AICAR reduces IL-6 and IL-8 in human adipose tissue and skeletal muscle cells

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Associations of Maternal Weight Status Before, During, and After Pregnancy with Inflammatory Markers in Breast Milk

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A burning issue: do sepsis and systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) directly contribute to cardiac dysfunction?

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Epidemiology and pathophysiology of obesity as cause of cancer

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A Review of Weight Loss Following Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass vs Restrictive Bariatric Surgery: Impact on Adiponectin and Insulin

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Inflammation and conjugated linoleic acid: mechanisms of action and implications for human health

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Inflammation, obesity and rheumatic disease: common mechanistic links. A narrative review

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Obesity, Pancreatitis, and Pancreatic Cancer

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Recombinant methionyl human leptin administration to achieve high physiologic or pharmacologic leptin levels does not alter circulating inflammatory marker levels in humans with leptin sufficiency or excess.

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Protective effects of polyphenol-rich infusions from carob (Ceratonia siliqua) leaves and cladodes of Opuntia ficus-indica against inflammation associated with diet-induced obesity and DSS-induced colitis in Swiss mice

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Does Inflammation Mediate the Obesity and BPH Relationship? An Epidemiologic Analysis of Body Composition and Inflammatory Markers in Blood, Urine, and Prostate Tissue, and the Relationship with Prostate Enlargement and Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

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Improving Outcome After Major Surgery

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YKL-40 secreted from adipose tissue inhibits degradation of type I collagen

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Long‐term effects of different exercise training modes on cytokines and adipokines in individuals with overweight/obesity and cardiometabolic diseases: A systematic review, meta‐analysis, and meta‐regression of randomized controlled trials

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The Obesity-Breast Cancer Conundrum: An Analysis of the Issues

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The immune remodel: Weight loss-mediated inflammatory changes to obesity

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Simvastatin therapy in adolescent mice attenuates HFD-induced depression-like behavior by reducing hippocampal neuroinflammation

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Response to Tocilizumab in Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Not Influenced by the Body Mass Index of the Patient

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Lipids and bariatric procedures Part 2 of 2: scientific statement from the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), the National Lipid Association (NLA), and Obesity Medicine Association (OMA)

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A Comparative Analysis and Systematic Review of the Wound-Healing Milieu: Implications for Body Contouring after Massive Weight Loss

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Changes in inflammatory markers after sleeve gastrectomy in patients with impaired glucose homeostasis and type 2 diabetes

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Relationship Between Pediatric Obesity and Otitis Media With Effusion

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Biliary pancreatic diversion and laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding in morbid obesity: their long-term effects on metabolic syndrome and on cardiovascular parameters

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Body mass index, respiratory function and bronchial hyperreactivity in allergic rhinitis and asthma

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Endobarrier® in Grade I Obese Patients with Long-Standing Type 2 Diabetes: Role of Gastrointestinal Hormones in Glucose Metabolism

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The role of obesity in the immune response during sepsis

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Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Insulin Resistance: Review of Mechanisms Mediating Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids

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The Transcriptome of Human Epicardial, Mediastinal and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissues in Men with Coronary Artery Disease

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Risk factors of infected sternal wounds versus sterile wound dehiscence

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Adiponectin Levels Are Reduced While Markers of Systemic Inflammation and Aortic Remodelling Are Increased in Intrauterine Growth Restricted Mother-Child Couple

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Impact of Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass on Metabolic Syndrome, Inflammation, and Insulin Resistance in Super Versus Morbidly Obese Women

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Adipokines as an important link between hidradenitis suppurativa and obesity: a narrative review

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Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the Obese Patient

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Chemerin and prediction of Diabetes mellitus type 2

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Management of Ulcerative Colitis in the Morbidly Obese Patient: Is Bariatric Surgery Indicated?

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Blocking endogenous IL-6 impairs mobilization of free fatty acids during rest and exercise in lean and obese men

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Hepatic Gene Expression in Morbidly Obese Women: Implications for Disease Susceptibility

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Inactivation of adipose angiotensinogen reduces adipose tissue macrophages and increases metabolic activity

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Portal vein thrombosis after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: presentation and management

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Endothelial Activation Markers and Their Key Regulators after Restrictive Bariatric Surgery

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Antioxidant Food Supplements and Obesity-Related Inflammation

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Incidence of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Thrombosis of the Portal–Mesenteric Axis After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy

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Effect of Weight Reduction Following Bariatric Surgery on Serum Visfatin and Adiponectin Levels in Morbidly Obese Subjects

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Association between low cortical bone mineral density, soft-tissue calcification, vascular calcification and chondrocalcinosis: a case-control study

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Comparison of particle-exposure triggered pulmonary and systemic inflammation in mice fed with three different diets

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The effect of weight loss after gastric bypass on C-reactive protein levels

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Treatment failure in inflammatory arthritis: time to think about syndemics?

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Obesity Is an Independent Predictor of Poor Survival in Metastatic Breast Cancer: Retrospective Analysis of a Patient Cohort Whose Treatment Included High-Dose Chemotherapy and Autologous Stem Cell Support

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Esculetin inhibits the inflammatory response by inducing heme oxygenase-1 in cocultured macrophages and adipocytes

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Parameters of Inflammation in Morbid Obesity: Lack of Effect of Moderate Weight Loss

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Adiponectin and Endometrial Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Bacterial DNA Translocation Holds Increased Insulin Resistance and Systemic Inflammatory Levels in Morbid Obese Patients

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Circulating levels of IL-33 are elevated by obesity and positively correlated with metabolic disorders in Chinese adults

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Effect of Surgical Weight Loss on Sleep Architecture in Adolescents with Severe Obesity

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Reduced Cardiovascular Risk Following Bariatric Surgeries is Related to a Partial Recovery from “Adiposopathy”

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Serum concentrations and expressions of serum amyloid A and leptin in adipose tissue are interrelated: the Genobin Study

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Obesity modifies the association between plasma phospholipid polyunsaturated fatty acids and markers of inflammation: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

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Winter to summer change in vitamin D status reduces systemic inflammation and bioenergetic activity of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells

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Glucocorticoids Inhibit the Cerebral Microvascular Dysfunction Associated with Sepsis in Obese Mice

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Obesity Alters Cytokine Gene Expression and Promotes Liver Injury in Rats With Acute Pancreatitis

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