chronic low-grade inflammation after exercise: controversies

Chronic Low-grade Inflammation after Exercise: Controversies

Chronic Low-grade Inflammation after Exercise: Controversies

In a recent published paper in IJBMS, Kazeem A, et al evaluated the changes of acute phase proteins after moderate and prolonged exercise (1). They found that prolonged exercise increased plasma C-reactive protein (CRP); however, moderate exercise did not change plasma CRP level. They concluded that moderate exercise, and not prolonged exercise, should be encouraged. Chronic low-grade inflammat...

Persistent low-grade inflammation and regular exercise.

Persistent low-grade systemic inflammation is a feature of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), type 2 diabetes and dementia and evidence exists that inflammation is a causal factor in the development of insulin resistance and atherosclerosis. Regular exercise offers protection against all of these diseases and recent evidence suggests that the protective effect of exercise ma...

Low-Grade Inflammation and Spinal Cord Injury: Exercise as Therapy?

An increase in the prevalence of obesity in people with spinal cord injury can contribute to low-grade chronic inflammation and increase the risk of infection in this population. A decrease in sympathetic activity contributes to immunosuppression due to the lower activation of immune cells in the blood. The effects of physical exercise on inflammatory parameters in individuals with spinal cord ...

Physical activity, exercise and low-grade systemic inflammation.

Prospective studies have shown that chronic low-grade inflammation may contribute to the pathogenesis of the most common chronic diseases and in particular CVD. Obesity has repeatedly been associated with moderately raised levels of inflammation, and this observation has led to the view that obesity is characterised by a state of chronic low-grade inflammation. There is now great interest in el...

Exercise as a Mean to Control Low-Grade Systemic Inflammation

Chronic noncommunicable diseases (CNCDs), which include cardiovascular disease, some cancers, for example, colon cancer, breast cancer, and type 2 diabetes, are reaching epidemic proportions worldwide. It has now become clear that low-grade chronic inflammation is a key player in the pathogenesis of most CNCDs. Given that regular exercise offers protection against all causes of mortality, prima...