The medical and social significance of inflammatory diseases in Ukraine is growing every year, which is associated with the deterioration of the ecological situation and the decrease in the immune response under the influence of adverse environmental factors. Acute inflammatory processes are increasingly taking a protracted course, and inflammation, having arisen evolutionarily as an adaptive reaction aimed at the formation of an immune response, due to the inconsistency of its control mechanisms leads to the development of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, therefore, it is necessary to systematize knowledge about the mechanisms and specifics of the inflammatory reaction under the influence of factors of various nature, to present their similarities and differences.
Sokolovskaya et al. (2025) studied this question.