Fatty airways: a source of good and bad fats?

There is a constant and consistent message in the medical and lay press that obesity is a modern epidemic affecting the developed world. It causes and exacerbates multiple diseases including cardio-metabolic, musculoskeletal, cancer and respiratory diseases [1]. There is no doubt that improving diet and lifestyle to eliminate obesity has positive health benefits [1]. Although this truism is well-known and accepted, the impact of obesity on the immunobiology of disease [1–4] is only beginning to be unravelled and this might reveal more subtle, albeit profound, effects of obesity on chronic inflammatory diseases.

Source: European Respiratory Journal - December 11, 2019 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Brightling, C. E., Tobin, A. B., Milligan, G. Tags: Editorials Source Type: research