Chronic Inflammation And Pathological Disorder

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Our body relies on all the different systems and organs to properly function. However, being interconnected with one another can prove fatal when an organ or a system is malfunctioning and not repaired in a timely manner. Chronic inflammation causes damage to our body at so many levels from individual cells to whole organs, but the question remains is why the body doesn’t just simply stop the inflammation? Most of the time why inflammation can’t simply stop is due to a pathological disorder. Inflammation purpose is to protect and repair damage cells but this only supposed to be for a short duration. So when tissue continually becomes inflamed, it now does the reverse effect and damages instead of heals. Chronic inflammation can start in one

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