PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Cunningham, Muriel
ED  - Alberti, K. K George
TI  - Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity Update
DP  - 2006 Sep 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 25--28
VI  - 6
IP  - 2
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/6/2/25.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/6/2/25.full
AB  - Is the metabolic syndrome a useful tool for clinicians or is it clinically irrelevant? This article discusses the debate the merits of this collection of symptoms, childhood obesity, new paradigms of obesity and diabetes in youth, the use of pramlintide in the treatment of obesity, and stress eating.