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The metabolic syndrome is a multiplex risk factor that consists of several risk correlates of metabolic origin. In addition, to dyslipidemia, hypertension, and hyperglycermia, the syndrome carries a prothrombotic state and a proinflammatory state. Persons with the metabolic syndrome are at essentially twice the risk for cardiovascular disease compared with those without the syndrome. It…
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This report summarizes the 2008 U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence (“2008 Update”) and provides an evidence-based blueprint for clinicians and healthcare systems to treat the deadly chronic disease of tobacco addiction effectively. The importance of such a blueprint is clear—clinicians and healthcare delivery systems have unparalleled access to American…