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(Contemporary Endocrinology.) Edited by Barbara Caleen Hansen and George A. Bray. 401 pp., illustrated. Totowa, NJ, Humana Press, 2008. $149. ISBN 978-1-58829-738-9.

According to population studies, the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in the United States among people over 60 years of age is approximately 45%, and the newest surveys suggest that this figure is now closer to 60%. The more than 3 million hits on Google and more than 11,000 publications registered in PubMed that result from a search for the term "metabolic syndrome" are an indication of the high level of interest in this disorder. The current task is to obtain a better understanding of how the individual components of the metabolic syndrome — hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, insulin resistance, and abdominal . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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