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Obesity and Diabetes
Wake Forest University reports research in obesity and diabetes
June 24th, 2008
In this recent report published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To assess the importance of the obesity epidemic on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, we determined the prevalence of obesity and the relationship of obesity to CVD risk factors and subclinical vascular disease. The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis is an observational cohort study involving 6814 persons aged 45 to 84 years who were free of clinical CVD at baseline (2000-2002)." "The study assessed the association between body size and CVD risk factors, medication use, and subclinical vascular disease (coronary artery calcium,...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-06-24)
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