[Obesity and inflammation in students of a Colombian public university].

Objective: To describe the relationship between obesity and proinflammatory variables in the student population of the University of Quindío.

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study in which 155 students participated. Firstly, the glycemia was made by conventional methods, the insulinemia and the cytokines were measured by ELISA; IMC and HOMA-IR index were calculated.