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Read the article about "Youth Overweight and Metabolic Disturbances in Predicting Carotid Intima-Media Thickness, Type 2 Diabetes, and Metabolic Syndrome in Adulthood: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study". Authors inlcude: Juha Koskinen, Costan G. Magnussen, Matthew A. Sabin, Mika Kähönen, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Tomi Laitinen, Leena Taittonen, Eero Jokinen, Terho Lehtimäki, Jorma S.A. Viikari, Olli T. Raitakari, and Markus Juonala.

By Roger S. Blumenthal, MD; and Michael Miller, MD

The field of preventive cardiology lost one of its great investigators, clinicians and mentors with the passing of Peter O. Kwiterovich Jr., MD, on Aug. 15. He died after a long battle with metastatic prostate cancer at age 74 years.