Open AccessRelationship of obesity with serum concentrations of leptin, CRP and IL-6 in breast cancer survivors
Author(s) -
Zeinab Babaei,
Dariush Moslemi,
Hadi Parsian,
Soraya Khafri,
Mahdi Pouramir,
Abbas Mosapour
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of egyptian national cancer institute/journal of the egyptian national cancer institute
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.398
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2589-0409
pISSN - 1110-0362
DOI - 10.1016/j.jnci.2015.09.001
Subject(s) - medicine , leptin , breast cancer , obesity , oncology , cancer , endocrinology
Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the adverse effect of obesity on quality of life among women with breast cancer, including alteration in some inflammatory markers. The aim of this study was to determine the status of serum levels of leptin, IL-6 and CRP in obese, overweight and normal weight breast cancer survivors in order to determine the relationship between inflammatory markers' levels and obesity.