Post-intensive care syndrome results from continuous inflammation

Re:Post-intensive care syndrome results from continuous infl... by post_below on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @05:38PM (#22428211)

We do know a lot about it, though, much more, I'm assuming, than we did when the previous poster was a grad student.

We know about different types of inflammation and the cellular processes involved, we know how it turns on and off, we know more about how it effects different systems and organs in the body. We can distinguish between short term and chronic inflammation and differentiate between types of inflammation that are beneficial and types that aren't.

There are, of course, lots of articles and trends out there that over simplify and make unreasonable associations and leaps... the comparison to quantum mechanics is apt in that way. But irresponsible reporting doesn't invalidate the source.

Our understanding is well beyond abstract at this point, despite how much we still don't know. The bulk of what we don't know outweighs what we do in most areas of biology.

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Re:Post-intensive care syndrome results from continuous infl... by arkades on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:06PM (#22428456)

OP went on to medical school after finishing that grad degree. We know a lot more about molecular biology. That we clump stuff under the header of "inflammation" is a categorization/naming issue, not a biology issue :)

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