The Metabolic Syndrome: is it an important medical issue in your opinion (and specialty)? Why?

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• Marja-Riitta Taskinen (Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland)
• Stevo Julius (University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
• Philippe-Gabriel Steg (Department of Cardiology, Hôpital Bichat, Paris, France)
• Yuji Matsuzawa (Director of the Sumitomo Hospital, Osaka, Japan)
• Gaetano Crepaldi (Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy)
• Paul Zimmet (International Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia)
• Frank Sacks (Harvard School of Public Health; Brigham & Women?s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA)
• Jean-Pierre Després (Québec Heart Institute, Laval University, Canada)
• Rury Holman (Diabetes Trials Unit, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, United Kingdom)
• Michel Farnier (Point Médical, Dijon, France)

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• Paul Zimmet (International Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia)

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