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International Journal of Inflammation
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 124693, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/124693
Research Article

Comparison of Different Anthropometric Measurements and Inflammatory Biomarkers

Yaron Arbel, Edo Y. Birati, Itzhak Shapira, Talya Finn, Shlomo Berliner, and Ori Rogowski

Departments of Cardiology and Internal Medicine “D” and “E”, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 62439, Israel

Received 8 February 2012; Accepted 6 March 2012

Academic Editor: Juan Carlos Kaski

Copyright © 2012 Yaron Arbel et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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