Metabolic Syndrome: Growing Health Threat
13th Sep 2005, 04:22 GMT
A cluster of obesity-related heath risk factors known as metabolic syndrome, which dramatically raises the risk of heart disease and diabetes, poses a growing threat to the health of Americans and requires more aggressive treatment.
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