Chronic Inflammation & Chronic Disease -- Originally Published February 2007 issue of Allergy Consumer Report

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Most allergy and asthma sufferers are all too familiar with inflammation, but you may not realize that inflammation also plays a key role in arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, irritable bowel syndrome, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and many others. Over the past few decades, scientists have realized that the process of inflammation is virtually the same in different diseases, and a better understanding of inflammation may lead to better treatments for numerous diseases.

Inflammation is a hot topic in medical research. Just last month, researchers at U.C. San Diego found a link between inflammation and cancer in the form of a specific protein. In a seperate study last month, psychiatrists at King's College in London found that people who were physically or sexually abused as children are twice as likely to have inflammatory proteins in their blood. And in yet another study released last month in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, researchers found that men who took a single aspirin (an anti-inflammatory drug) every other day were 22 percent less likely to develop asthma than those who did not.

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