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Metabolic Syndrome: Another Nail in the Coffin?
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Title Metabolic Syndrome: Another Nail in the Coffin?
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/574892?src=rss
Description The metabolic syndrome is not linked with cardiovascular risk in the elderly and that a fasting plasma glucose test is as good a predictor of diabetes as the syndrome. Medscape Medical News
Category Articles > Cardiology
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Date May 23, 2008
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