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Defining and treating the metabolic syndrome: A primer from the Adult Treatment Panel III

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  1. Center for Human Nutrition and Division of Endocrinology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Room Y3.234 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, 75235-9052, Dallas, TX, USA

    Margo A. Denke MD (Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern and a Senior Clinical Nutrition Research Scholar in the Center for Human Nutrition)

  2. Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, 02114, Boston, MA, USA

    Richard C. Pasternak MD (Director of Preventive Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School)

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Denke, M.A., Pasternak, R.C. Defining and treating the metabolic syndrome: A primer from the Adult Treatment Panel III. Curr Treat Options Cardio Med 3, 251–253 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11936-001-0087-5

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