Volume 1, Issue 2, May 2008

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial
  By Jean-Pierre Després, PhD, FAHA, Editor-in-Chief page 2-3
     
Insulin resistance and compensatory hyperinsu-linemia: the linchpin between obesity and cardio-vascular disease
  By Gerald M. Reaven, MD pages 4-10
     
Abdominal obesity, insulin resistance, and alterations in hemostasis
  By Irène Juhan-Vague, MD, PhD, Marie-Christine Alessi, MD, PhD pages 11-16
     
Visceral fat, like epicardial fat, is an ectopic fat depot which reflects cardiometabolic risk in obesity
  By Ulf Smith, MD, PhD pages 17-19
     
Does the relationship between waist circumference, morbidity and mortality depend on measurement protocol for waist circumference?
  By Robert Ross, PhD, Tina Berentzen, MSc, Alison J. Bradshaw, MSc, Ian Janssen, PhD, Henry S. Kahn, MD, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, PhD, Jennifer L. Kuk, PhD, Jaap C. Seidell, PhD, Marieke B. Snijder, PhD, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, MD, Dr Med Sci, Jean-Pierre Després PhD, FAHA pages 20-22
     
   
     
     
   
     
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