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INFLAMMATORY PCOS

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INFLAMMATORY PCOS occurs when your body's natural immune system, made up of white blood cells and other factors, reacts to a foreign substance in an attempt to protect your body from a perceived threat. Unfortunately, sometimes your body's inflammatory response is triggered inappropriately and causes your immune system to respond to your own tissues and cells.

This inflammatory response can cause a variety of symptoms such as swelling, pain, fatigue, and headaches. Inflammation is not only associated with joints and muscles, as is commonly seen in rheumatoid arthritis or gout; it can also happen in internal organs. Other systemic conditions caused by inflammation include colitis (inflammation of the colon) and myocarditis (inflammation of the heart muscle).

 

Several studies have shown that people with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are more likely to have elevated CRP levels compared to people without the disease.3 This suggests that some form of inflammation is occurring in the body.

If you have PCOS, you may also have high levels of other markers of inflammation, such as oxidative stress, inflammatory cytokines, and white blood cells called lymphocytes and monocytes. All of these factors are involved in the immune response and are also found during inflammation. Elevated CRP levels are also associated with diabetes, insulin resistance, and heart disease, conditions that are more common in people with PCOS.

 

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