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Volume 1, Issue 2, May 2008

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