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Special Feature: Introduction
Nature Medicine 12, 26 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nm0106-26
Metabolic syndrome
To say that obesity and diabetes have acquired the proportion of full-blown epidemics has become something of a cliché. But this shouldn't lead us to simply accept these diseases as by-products of our modern lifestyle or to overlook their social and financial importance, lest we become complacent about the need to fight them.
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