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The Diabetes Prevention Program and the Metabolic Syndrome
- Trevor J. Orchard, MD;
- Marinella Temprosa, MS; and
- Robert Ratner, MD
- From University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; George Washington University, Rockville, MD 20852; and Medstar Research Institute, Hyattsville, MD 20783.
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IN RESPONSE:
We thank our correspondents for their interesting letters concerning sleep-related breathing disorder and fatty liver as related to the metabolic syndrome. In terms of sleep-related breathing disorder, we unfortunately have no specific data to provide but agree this is an interesting field for future study. We do, however, have data concerning liver enzymes. Although these were not provided in our most recent report because they do not form part of the National Cholesterol Education Program's definition of the metabolic syndrome, we consider this topic so relevant and important that a full, separate paper is in preparation to address the impact on and associations between our interventions and these measures.
Marinella Temprosa, MS
George Washington University; Rockville, MD 20852
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