title: Metabolic syndrome and vascular disease: is nature or nurture leading the new epidemic of cardiovascular disease?
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, VA Central California Health Care System and University of California San Francisco Program, Fresno, CA 93703, USA. deed@ucsfresno.edu
authors.forename: Prakash C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Deedwania
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*