Declaration of competing financial interests

From the following article:

Drug therapy of the metabolic syndrome: minimizing the emerging crisis in polypharmacy

Scott M. Grundy

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 5, 295-309 (April 2006)

doi:10.1038/nrd2005

Declaration: During the past 5 years, S.M.G. has been an investigator on research grants awarded to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA, from Merck, Abbott and Kos Pharmaceuticals. He has also served as a consultant for Merck, Merck Schering Plough, Kos, Abbott, Fournier, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Sankyo, AstraZeneca and Sanofi-Aventis.