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Health and wellness: how much do gunshot wounds increase someone's inflammation levels?
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Depends on damage: Wounds lead to an inflammatory response on the path to healing. Gunshot wounds range from very small to large and life-threatening. So a small gunshot wound may not increase inflammation level much and likewise a large gunshot wound can lead to organ failure, high levels of inflammation and even death.
Answered 10/18/2016
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Gunshot: Gunshot wounds can increase the inflammatory levels, just as would any injury to the body. Unable to ascertain how high those levels would go; and its possible that the inflammatory markets would not show much elevation when tested. It is injury and patient specific.
Answered 10/26/2012
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What do you mean : What do you mean by inflammation levels ? Can you be more specific ?
Answered 5/30/2017
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