ISA Rome 2006 Symposium Highlights

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The first International Chair on Cardiometabolic Risk symposium was held during the ISA 2006 meeting in Rome. The key challenge of this first meeting was to evaluate whether global cardiometabolic risk assessment can be improved by including all traditional risk factors as well as the metabolic syndrome and abdominal obesity. The clip includes comments by world-renowned experts such as Dr. Jean-Pierre Després, Dr. Bryan Brewer, Dr. Virgil Brown, Dr. Peter Jones, Dr. Christie Ballantyne, Dr. Michael Stern, Dr. Scott Grundy, Dr. Philip Barter, and Dr. Peter Libby. Parts