Figure 2. Systemic inflammome in healthy and obese individuals before and after BS.

Each node represents one inflammatory marker and color indicates the type of inflammatory marker considered (acute phase reactants, cytokines, adipokines or oxidative stress). The node diameter is proportional to the prevalence of abnormal values (i.e.,>95^th or <5^th of controls) of that particular biomarker in the population under consideration (control or obese individuals) and the thickness of the edges linking pairs of nodes is proportional to the prevalence of co-occurrence of abnormal biomarkers of that particular pair of nodes.