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Editorials

Obesity and diabetes: questions remain but action should not be delayed

Jim Mann, Kirsten McAuley, Rachael Taylor

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Preventing diabetes—time is running out

Robert Scragg

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Bariatric surgery: folly or the future?

Iain Martin

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Original Articles

Insulin resistance in a rural Maori community

David Tipene-Leach, Helen Pahau, Nathan Joseph, Kirsten Coppell, Kirsten McAuley, Chris Booker, Sheila Williams, Jim Mann

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Risk factors for type 2 diabetes in postmenopausal New Zealand women: a cross-sectional study

Sally Rose, Beverley Lawton, Anthony Dowell, Anna Fenton

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Body size, body composition, and fat distribution: a comparison of young New Zealand men of European, Pacific Island, and Asian Indian ethnicities

Elaine Rush, Lindsay Plank, Vishnu Chandu, Manaia Laulu, David Simmons, Boyd Swinburn, Chittaranjan Yajnik

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Obesity and health-related quality of life: results from a weight loss trial

Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Derrick Bennett, Ray Lin, Maree Hackett, Andrew Jull, Anthony Rodgers

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Gastric bypass surgery for severe obesity: what can be achieved?

Mike He, Richard Stubbs

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Cost-effectiveness of physical activity counselling in general practice

Raina Elley, Ngaire Kerse, Bruce Arroll, Boyd Swinburn, Toni Ashton, Elizabeth Robinson

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Diabetes in children and young adults in Waikato Province, New Zealand: outcomes of care

Adrian Scott, Susie Whitcombe, David Bouchier, Peter Dunn

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Under-reporting of diabetes on death certificates among a population with diabetes in Otago Province, New Zealand

Kirsten Coppell, Karen McBride, Sheila Williams

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Indigenous disparities in disease-specific mortality, a cross-country comparison: New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States

Dale Bramley, Paul Hebert, Rod Jackson, Mark Chassin

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Case Reports

Development of reversible diabetes mellitus after cessation of interferon-alpha therapy for chronic hepatitis C infection

Tsung-Neng Tasi, Chang-Hsun Hsieh

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Thyroid papillary carcinoma in subhyoid ectopic thyroid tissue

Hsin-Yu Lee, Mei-Hsiu Chen, Chih-Yuan Wang

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Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis in a Maori patient

Edward Wild

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Viewpoint

Adolescent obesity and physical inactivity

Maea Hohepa, Grant Schofield, Gregory Kolt

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Appendicostomy

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Proceedings

Proceedings of the Waikato Clinical School Research Seminar, Thursday 16 September 2004

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Proceedings of the 175th meeting of the Otago Medical School Research Society, 11 November 2004

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Medical Image

Metastatic melanoma causing small bowel obstruction

Jeremy Rossaak, Angus Watson

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Regarding ‘Mortality, morbidity, and asbestosis in New Zealand: the hidden legacy of asbestos exposure’

Andrew Veale

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Perinatal information

Ross Howie

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Prognostic value of erythrocyte sedimentation rate in patients with decompensated heart failure

Francisco Ruiz-Ruiz, Beatriz Sierra Bergua, Álvaro Flamarique Pascual, Juan Perez-Calvo

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CSF bilirubin measurement for xanthochromia

Christopher Florkowski, Jacobus Ungerer, Sandi Southby, Peter George

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Medicolegal

Professional Discipline – Indecent Assault Conviction

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Obituary

Maurice White Falloon

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Notices

Medical Benevolent Fund

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Special offer: CD ROM of the New Zealand Medical Journal

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Book Reviews

Hyperlipidemia: Fast Facts Series (2nd edition; Paul Durrington, Allan Sniderman)

Russell Scott

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Colorectal Cancer: Fast Facts Series (2nd edition; Irving Taylor, Julio Garcia-Aguilar, Stanley Goldberg)

Frank Frizelle

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Surgery Minitext (John Lumley, Paul Sroden, Ramanathan Visvanathan, eds)

Frank Frizelle

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Emergency Medicine: The principles of practice (4th edition; Gordian Fulde)

Scott Pearson

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Unification of Western Medicine & Traditional Chinese Medicine (Lonnian Lee)

Min Loke Wong

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Osteoporosis (Dan Rutherford)

Nigel Gilchrist

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