Journal of the CardioMetabolic Syndrome The emergence of the metabolic syndrome as a disease state demands a journal devoted to providing essential information to the clinical readership. The Journal of the CardioMetabolic Syndrome, under the leadership of Editor in Chief James R. Sowers, MD, is a quarterly publication that will circulate to approximately 25,000 US cardiologists, diabetologists, endocrinologists, health care professionals, and internists.
EDITOR IN CHIEF James R. Sowers, MD
Biography
EDITORIAL BOARD
SENIOR EDITORS George L. Bakris, MD Jan Basile, MD Frank W. Booth, PhD Michael Bursztyn, MD Kevin Dellsperger MD, PhD Keith C. Ferdinand, MD Meredith Hay, MS, PhD Melvin R. Hayden, MD Jamal A. Ibdah, MD, PhD Samuel Klein, MD Samy I. McFarlane, MD, MPH Janet B. McGill, MD Marvin Moser, MD Linda R. Peterson, MD Daniel Porte Jr, MD Arya M. Sharma, MD, PhD Naftali Stern, MD Craig S. Stump, MD, PhD Adam T. Whaley-Connell, DO Kathleen L. Wyne, MD, PhD
EDITORIAL BOARD Amanda Adler, MD, PhD, FRCP Ezra A. Amsterdam, MD Rohit Arora, MD Christie M. Ballantyne, MD Mario Barbagallo, MD, PhD Steven N. Blair, PED Roger S. Blumenthal, MD Steven L. Britton, PhD Ketan R. Bulsara, MD W. Todd Cade, PT, PhD Vito M. Campese, MD Mark E. Cooper, MBBS, PhD, FRACP Dalila B. Corry, MD Prakash C. Deedwania, MD Ligia J. Dominguez, MD Geoffrey A. Donnan, MD, FRACP Helmut Drexler, MD William C. Duckworth, MD Murray Epstein, MD Bonita Falkner, MD Carlos M. Ferrario, MD John M. Flack, MD, MPH Stanley S. Franklin, MD Edward D. Frohlich, MD Haralambos P. Gavras, MD Irene Gavras, MD John Gerich, MD Thomas D. Giles, MD
Theodore L. Goodfriend, MD Antonio M. Gotto Jr, MD, DPhil Joey P. Granger, PhD George Gubernikoff, MD David D. Gutterman, MD John E. Hall, PhD David G. Harrison, MD Erik J. Henriksen, PhD Rury R. Holman, FRCP Kenneth A. Jamerson, MD C. Tissa Kappagoda, MBBS, PhD Sangeeta Kashyap, MD George L. King, MD Theodore A. Kotchen, MD Ronald M. Krauss, MD Robert A. Kreisberg, MD Daniel T. Lackland, DrPH Po S. Leung, PhD T. Barry Levine, MD Peter Libby, MD Y. Howard Lien, MD, PhD Giuseppe Mancia, MD Jerry L. Nadler, MD Peter M. Nilsson, MD, PhD Dilip K. Pandey, MBBS, MS, PhD Richard C. Pasternak, MD Bertram Pitt, MD Michael J. Quon, MD, PhD Mohan K. Raizada, PhD Peter D. Reaven, MD Talma Rosenthal, MD Luis M. Ruilope, MD Tatjana Rundek, MD, PhD Pantelis A. Sarafidis, MD, PhD Ernesto L. Schiffrin, MD, PhD, FRCPC Kevin R. Short, PhD Helmy M. Siragy, MD George S. Stergiou, MD John P. Thyfault, PhD Michael Tuck, MD Douglas E. Vaughan, MD Donald G. Vidt, MD R. Clinton Webb, PhD Myron H. Weinberger, MD Neal Lee Weintraub, MD Matthew R. Weir, MD Nathaniel Winer, MD Nathan D. Wong, PhD, MPH Jackson T. Wright Jr, MD, PhD Kevin E. Yarasheski, PhD Reuven Zimlichman, MD