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Updated Metabolic Syndrome Web Focus. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that occur together and increase the risk for heart disease, stroke and diabetes affecting nearly 50 million Americans. Read the most recent articles providing valuable insight into this emerging medical and public health epidemic.this article is FREE

Invading obesity with immunology. IL1RN may show immune functions having direct influence over body fat mass. Read how this receptor antagonist gene may limit interlukein-1 activity and increase obesity risk. FREE

Frontier's in fighting obesity. Combined amylin/anorectic therapies could tame obesity's growing threat. Read papers from the 9th and 10th Annual International Symposia in Obesity featuring GHSR gene therapy, mechanics of bariatric surgery and how pre-adulthood prevention may prove crucial to defeating obesity.

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