{"title":"Studying the Immune Profile and Susceptibility to Microbial Infections in Obese Adults","authors":"Mohammad A. K. Al-Saadi, H. Farhood, F. Al-Zayadi","doi":"10.9734/bmrj/2016/23752","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Objectives: This study aims at studying the effect of adult obesity on immunologic profile and IFN- γ was not significant decreased in obese group, while concentrations of C3 & C4 were a highly significant increased (p ˂ 0.001) in obese group, phagocytic index was a highly significant decreased in obese subjects (p ˂ 0.001). Regarding the susceptibility to microbial infections the concentrations of ASO & anti-measles virus IgG in obese group were a highly significant more than controls. Conclusions: This result may provide clear evidence that obese subjects are more susceptible to microbial infections than normal subjects.","PeriodicalId":9269,"journal":{"name":"British microbiology research journal","volume":"82 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"British microbiology research journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.9734/bmrj/2016/23752","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Objectives: This study aims at studying the effect of adult obesity on immunologic profile and IFN- γ was not significant decreased in obese group, while concentrations of C3 & C4 were a highly significant increased (p ˂ 0.001) in obese group, phagocytic index was a highly significant decreased in obese subjects (p ˂ 0.001). Regarding the susceptibility to microbial infections the concentrations of ASO & anti-measles virus IgG in obese group were a highly significant more than controls. Conclusions: This result may provide clear evidence that obese subjects are more susceptible to microbial infections than normal subjects.