Obesity, bone marrow adiposity, and leukemia: Time to act
Vijay Kumar,
John H. Stewart
Abstract:SummaryObesity has taken the face of a pandemic with less direct concern among the general population and scientific community. However, obesity is considered a low‐grade systemic inflammation that impacts multiple organs. Chronic inflammation is also associated with different solid and blood cancers. In addition, emerging evidence demonstrates that individuals with obesity are at higher risk of developing blood cancers and have poorer clinical outcomes than individuals in a normal weight range. The bone marro… Show more
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