Is obesity an inflammatory condition?

By Undurti N. Das. Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.), 2001

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Increased intestinal permeability in obese mice: new evidence in the pathogenesis of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. (2007, background): “In obese subjects, soluble factors arising directly from fat tissue or produced as a consequence of the associated metabolic syndrome, like hyperinsulinemia, might directly affect TJ function (17, 36, 49, 54).”
Adipokines: inflammation and the pleiotropic role of white adipose tissue (2004, background): “The basis for this view is that increased circulating levels of several markers of inflammation, both pro-inflammatory cytokines and acute-phase proteins, are elevated in the obese; these markers include IL-6, the TNFa system, C-reactive protein (CRP) and haptoglobin (Das, 2001; Bulló et al. 2003).”
Inflammatory markers and risk of developing type 2 diabetes in women. (2004, background): “Recent evidence indicates that obesity may be an inflammatory condition (2).”