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2. LAP-BAND or medical therapy for metabolic syndrome?

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3. Effects of exercise on adipokines and the metabolic syndrome

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4. Endocannabinoid system overactivity and the metabolic syndrome: Prospects for treatment

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5. Do cardiac and perivascular adipose tissue play a role in atherosclerosis?

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6. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: Diagnosis and relation to metabolic syndrome and approach to treatment

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7. Challenges in developing drugs for the metabolic syndrome

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8. Metabolic syndrome and stroke

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9. The metabolic syndrome in primary aldosteronism

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10. Why is HDL functionally deficient in type 2 diabetes?

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11. Fatty liver, insulin resistance, and dyslipidemia

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    OriginalPaper 02 February 2008 Pages: 60 - 64

12. Derangements of intravascular remodeling of lipoproteins in type 2 diabetes mellitus: Consequences for atherosclerosis development

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13. Diabetic dyslipidemia and atherosclerosis: Evidence from clinical trials

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