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FFRF challenges unconstitutional New York City grant to religious event
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling attention to a constitutional violation by the New York City Council.
A concerned New York taxpayer contacted the state/church watchdog to report that the city has awarded a grant to the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) as part of the Muslim Empowerment Initiative. The group reportedly intends to use these taxpayer funds to pay for several religious events.
The Islamic Council received an allocation of funds from the City Council for fiscal year 2019 totaling $20,000. As part of the Muslim Empowerment Initiative, these funds were reportedly meant to be used to "educate Muslim New Yorkers on their fundamental rights, conduct case management and provide referrals for various legal, social and health care services."
It is well settled that the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment prohibits any "sponsorship, financial support and active involvement of the sovereign in religious activity," FFRF reminds the City Council. Nor can the government promote one religion over another or religion over nonreligion.
The Islamic Circle of North America is, at its core, a proselytizing organization. Its website states that "Dawah has always been the top priority of ICNA." Dawah is a two-pronged concept consisting of external and internal Dawah. Internal Dawah involves teaching Muslims about aspects of Islam, while "[e]xternal Dawah" is to invite non-Muslims to Islam and teach them about Islamic beliefs and practices. In other word, the top priority of the Islamic Council is to promote its version of Islam, both to Muslims and non-Muslims.
"Awarding funding to a Muslim organization that intends to use those funds to pay for religious events violates [The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment]," writes FFRF Staff Attorney Ryan Jayne. "Especially when a grant recipient is openly committed to converting people to Islam, the New York City Council must take steps to ensure that its funds will not be used to advance religion."
FFRF is requesting assurances that the organization's portion of the Muslim Empowerment Initiative grant money will either not be awarded or that the money will not be used to pay for religious events.
"FFRF has no objection to this grant money going toward secular legal, health care or social services, as it was intended," says FFRF Co-President Dan Barker. "New York taxpayers, however, should not have to fund religious services against their constitutionally protected freedom of conscience."
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a national nonprofit organization with more than 32,000 members across the country, including over 1,600 members in New York. FFRF's purposes are to protect the constitutional principle of separation between church and state, and to educate the public on matters relating to nontheism.


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Doing Real Business in a Virtual Office
By Pam Baker September 6, 2010 5:00 AM PT Email Article
This story was originally published on June 1, 2010, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series.
Empty office space litters skylines, freeways and office parks. Once-busy hives of cubicles have become empty steel and concrete caverns. Their previous occupants met with a variety of fates: Some were victims of a deep recession; others were washed away by tsunamis of cheap labor in foreign lands; still others were unleashed by virtual technologies. Only the last group of former office dwellers have freed themselves willingly. They did so by exchanging their physical presence for a virtual existence.
"My partner and I have run the business from a lakeside dock in Canada and a hotel in Barcelona, for around US$200 per month for all the necessary tools," Stephanie Pakrul, cofounder of TopNotchThemes, told the E-Commerce Times.
Virtual and Real
"Our virtual assistant wakes up on the East Coast, checks the mail, checks for voicemail, answers support emails, and I get a report of anything pressing by the time I'm awake in Pacific time," explained Pakrul.
The TopNotchThemes team uses the following tools to make their virtual existence concrete:
Earth Class Mail for digital mail
RingCentral for phone/virtual PBX
Quickbooks Online for portable bookkeeping
Bank of America's online banking and bill pay to send direct deposit, wire, or checks to anyone
RescueTime for tracking tasks and project work
Google Docs for online document creation and storage
"There are some huge benefits to Earth Class Mail in particular, in that you can get an actual street address, not just a P.O. box," said Pakrul. "Plus, with your mail scanned quickly online, you don't need to re-ship everything, and often can just have the paper copies shredded and keep the scans, which keeps down the cost and paper."
A Place to Be
If, however, your business is the type that needs the occasional meeting room and all snail mail as original hard copies, then opt to be a virtual tenant in any number of actual offices.
"We have a virtual tenant who is actually in China," Jeremy Wolf, owner of Wolf Commercial, told the E-Commerce Times. "We box his mail and ship it to him once a week."
Many of Wolf's virtual tenants, however, are attracted to the common areas — namely, boardrooms and fancy lobbies with highly skilled receptionists. Still others like the faux caller ID.
"You can either plug one of our phones into your computer or install some simple softphone software. Either way, the receptionist can transfer calls to you anywhere without the caller knowing you're outside the premises," he added.
"You can also call anyone and the caller ID will show your 'office' number, not the number where you actually are," he said.
The result: A small business can appear much larger, and workers never have to set foot in an actual office again. On the downside, it's much easier to set up a scam operation these days!
The costs for a virtual tenant is "roughly 25 percent or less than a regular tenant," said Wolf. The lowest rent Wolf offers regular tenants is $1,000 a month. By comparison, virtual tenants pay $250 a month, on average.
Computer Masquerade
Two other trends are freeing entrepreneurs to roam where they please and still appear anchored to their desks: hosted servers and cloud computing. A data center can be anywhere and still be accessible. The options are plentiful and tailored to specific needs. You can create your own data center as a virtual tenant in an office building or even in your home. Or, you can choose to rent space on someone else's server (hosted) or use cloud computing and spread the workload across many computers.
Accessing your data remotely is a near no-brainer exercise. Hosted and cloud systems can easily be accessed online, often simply through a browser. So can desktop computers via virtual network computing (VNC) such as Softwareforme's Phone my PC, Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Connection or Citrix's GoToMyPC.
In addition, technologies that speed data transfer and streaming on mobile devices are rapidly advancing beyond their former limitations. Technologies like the newest versions of Bluetooth, as well as 3G and 4G tools via cell providers, are elevating mobile devices over fixed ones.
These technologies mean that a specific computer and a specific place are now no longer necessary. Anything and everything can exist anywhere and be used from anywhere. Place, as we know it, is no longer anchored to an earthy address.
One-Man Band
Virtual tool choices are determined by the tasks at hand and the image desired.
"I use Google Voice to give me an LA area code even though I'm headquartered in Chicago," Rien Heald, founder of MuVChat, an alternative entertainment company, told the E-Commerce Times. "Since I'm a movie-related business, I figured an LA area code was a good thing to have."
Heald uses the following tools for his business:
1) Google Apps. These include Gmail for email, branded by his domain.
2) His own contact management system — a combination of Word, Excel and Google Desktop search. "I put it together years ago and have used it for many different jobs, projects, etc.," Heald said. "It is very similar to 37Signals' Highrise, but while Highrise is an online tool, this is a desktop system.That said, I have begun experimenting with 37Signals' toolsets (Basecamp, Highrise) and plan to use the freebie versions until I outgrow them and need to purchase something. I like them because they don't try to do too much and they're pretty flexible."
3) Rally Software. "It has a really nice agile management tool, and they have a free version for SMBs that you can use to manage software development projects," noted Heald.
4) GoToMeeting. A "great and pretty cheap tool" that he uses with his consulting. "We use it to do customer demos or when I need to get 'face to face' with a remote resource and I need to show them something, or I need to view their desktop, etc.," he said. "Less than $50 a month provides unlimited desktop sharing, conference calls, and other services."
5) FreeConference. It "is a pretty decent free conference call provider," he said.
SMBs with a more global outlook will need a different tool mix.
"One technology that helps us the most is BaseCamp," Devesh Dwivedi, an entrepreneur with multiple lines of businesses, a virtual office and team memers in India, Philippines and the U.S., told the E-Commerce Times. "It allows every possible function and feature a project management solution can offer or an SMB would possibly need.
"It's very inexpensive and even the clients love it, because once the administrator has subscribed, any individual or business — clients, vendors, employees — can simply join in without a need of downloading." he explained.
In addition to Basecamp, Dwivedi uses the following tools:
1) ooVoo for face-to-face conference calls and discussions and
2) Vonage World for phone, which "has cut down our phone bills to a flat fee per month, even though we call India and Philippines for hours and hours per month," he said.
"If you are interested in the numbers: Basecamp costs us $24 a month. We have never paid more than $55 a month for Vonage World, including all taxes and some upgraded features. OoVoo costs us $10 a month," he said.
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There's Nothing Virtual About the VDI Vendor Wars
How Apple Became Red Hot in the Enterprise
The Cannabis Rush: Where There's Smoke, There's E-Commerce
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Building a Speed Bump for Tech Companies' Maniacal Data Race
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Q: unable to get local issuer certificate / SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from ZenLoadBalancer sits in front of my web servers (Debian).  The load balancer strips of SSL.  This works fine in a browser.  However, when connecting via SOAP or Curl, I am having a problem.
I used a curl test from another SO post to ensure the problem was with SSL:
$_h = curl_init();
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1);
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://mydomain.ca/webservice/soap/server.php?wsdl' );
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_DNS_USE_GLOBAL_CACHE, false );
curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_DNS_CACHE_TIMEOUT, 2 );

//curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

var_dump(curl_exec($_h));
var_dump(curl_getinfo($_h));
var_dump(curl_error($_h));

This returns:
string(63) "SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate"

If I uncomment CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, I get the XML back as expected.
So here is the real issue ... when I try to make the SOAP call:
$soap=new SoapClient('https://mydomain.ca/webservice/soap/server.php?wsdl');

This returns:
PHP Fatal error:  SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'https://mydomain.ca/webservice/soap/server.php?wsdl' : failed to load external entity "https://mydomain.ca/webservice/soap/server.php?wsdl"

If I take the load balancer out of the equation (and setup ssl virtualhosts, etc), the soap service works fine.  Its only when I add in the load balancer that I get this problem.
I am under the impression that the problem is exactly what the response from Curl is saying .. "unable to get local issuer certificate" .. however, I tried installing ca-certificates, specifying PEM files, etc etc .. but nothing seems to work.
I think the problem is on the load balancer side, but I have been testing things on the web server side just in case it gets through the load balancer ok.
On the web server, I can:
openssl s_client -connect mydomain.ca:443

That does return the certificate.
I confirmed that the server is listening on ports 443/8080/80 .. so that should be ok too (disabled iptables just in case).  I checked ports.conf and everything is listening on that end.
Hoping someone on SO can help point me in a different direction b/c I'm not quite sure what to search in bing/google at this point.  Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

A: Finally figured this out.  They key to knowing this was finally fixed was by running:
# openssl verify domain.pem

which should respond with:
domain.pem: OK

Before this was fixed, the response was:
unable to get local issuer certificate

Now, the fix ... well, the problem .... it was because when I created the PEM file, I used the wrong intermediate cert.  Oddly enough, the browsers (IE/Chrome/FF) had no problem with this .. it was only when using Curl/SOAP that I got an error.
To fix this in my case, I got the proper intermediate cert from my ssl provider (found on their support page), rebuilt my PEM file with their intermediate cert, tested the pem with "openssl verify" and got the expected answer ... "OK".  After that, I reconfigured the load balancer to use this new PEM file and it worked .. SOAP was able to connect!
Anyways, hope this might help someone in the future so they don't burn 6 hours like I did ugh.

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ASG, Faculty Senates debate Eikenberry appointment
Provost Dan Linzer speaks at Associated Student Government Senate on Wednesday. Linzer defended former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry's appointment as executive director of the Buffett Institute for Global Studies.
Josh Kaplan/The Daily Northwestern
Kelli Nguyen and Matthew Choi
Faculty Senate voted Wednesday to support former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry's appointment as executive director of the Buffett Institute for Global Studies. Associated Student Government Senate considered a resolution that calls on Northwestern to rescind the appointment, but postponed a vote on the resolution for two weeks.
Faculty Senate's motion passed 30-5 with 9 abstentions. Of the more than 80 members of Faculty Senate, 44 were present to vote. Communication Prof. Bob Hariman, a faculty senator, said faculty members learned of the motion roughly three hours before the meeting and were pressed to vote on it before ASG Senate considered a resolution criticizing Eikenberry later that evening.
The ASG resolution, authored by Weinberg senior Neha Reddy and SESP junior Matt Herndon, came after a letter to the editor in The Daily signed by 46 Northwestern faculty criticizing Eikenberry's appointment due to what they described as his alignment with the U.S. government. The letter also warned against using humanities and social science research to advance American interests abroad, an idea the writers of the letter say Eikenberry encouraged.
University President Morton Schapiro and Provost Dan Linzer responded with their own letter to The Daily saying Eikenberry's experiences make him fully qualified for the position.
Eikenberry, who currently works at Stanford University, retired from the Army in 2009 as a lieutenant general. He holds two master's degrees, one from Stanford and one from Harvard University.
Faculty Senate debated the issue for more than an hour before calling a vote on the motion. The senators discussed the issue at their previous meeting in early March, said economics Prof. Larry Christiano, a faculty senator who voted for the pro-Eikenberry motion.
"We thought really hard about this position and we really think it's right," Christiano told The Daily. "This was a very, very carefully considered decision that we made today."
Political science Prof. Jacqueline Stevens said she supports the ASG resolution, calling the Faculty Senate vote a "sham" and a "travesty." During the Faculty Senate meeting, Stevens said faculty did not have ample time to submit materials opposing Eikenberry's appointment for senators to consider.
"I think Karl Eikenberry is a really decent, good person … that's not my concern," Stevens told The Daily. "There's a misrepresentation about his qualifications, and therefore misinformation that's being distributed about the poor fit between his background and the position requirements."
Although Eikenberry lacks a doctorate, Christiano said his experience in international affairs qualifies him to lead the Buffett Institute. Christiano added that in order to find the best candidates, the search committee needed discretion.
"If we want a good person to throw their hat in, they won't do it if it's made public," he said. "What the committee wanted, what it was after, was someone who would be transformative, would take the University down a new path. The committee interviewed several people that had the potential to have such an impact … (but) Eikenberry was far away the most amazing of them all."
In the letter to The Daily, faculty criticized the search process as being "irregular" and "opaque."
Soon after the vote at Faculty Senate, some faculty members attended ASG Senate for debate on the ASG resolution.
Herndon and Reddy began the debate by listing concerns about Eikenberry's qualifications. They critiqued his past career in the military in Afghanistan and statements they said Eikenberry has made on the role of the humanities and social sciences in advancing American "soft power" — the ability to influence other nations through example rather than force.
"There's absolutely no way that those intentions should be behind any project affiliated with the humanities," Herndon said. "The humanities should be studied critically without foreign military or business interests."
Reddy said although Eikenberry possesses a respectable military record and two master's degrees, he does not have a doctorate and is not an academic, making him unfit for the position.
Linzer also attended the ASG Senate meeting and spoke in opposition to the resolution, arguing Eikenberry's qualifications do not conflict with the requirements of the post.
"The purpose of creating the position was to bring to Northwestern a proven leader who would complement, not simply supplement, the academic strengths of faculty," Linzer said. "The goal was to identify someone who would expand opportunities for our faculty and students."
After nearly two hours of debate, Erik Baker, the senator for sexual health and assault-related groups, motioned to postpone voting for two weeks. The Weinberg senior said he made the motion to postpone after hearing factually contradictory arguments during the debate.
"As a result of passing the motion I proposed, I feel Senate will come to a more informed and thus credible decision on the resolution," Baker told The Daily. "I would like to wait and hear both sides give their briefs and factual information at the next Senate before I come to a decision."
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Tags: Associated Student Government, Bob Hariman, Buffet Institute for Global Studies, Dan Linzer, Erik Baker, Faculty Senate, Jacqueline Stevens, Josh Kaplan, Karl Eikenberry, Larry Christiano, Matt Herndon, Morton Schapiro


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Cuba Lung Cancer Vaccine: Researchers develop world's first lung cancer vaccine
Written by CGTN
Cuba has developed the world's first lung cancer vaccine, which is already making its way into other Latin American countries. And, it's the first Cuban patented drug being allowed to undergo clinical trials at a US cancer research institute. CGTN's Michael Voss has this report from Havana.
Caridad Gomez started smoking when she was 13. Four years ago, she was diagnosed with lung cancer. After undergoing intensive chemotherapy, she is now being treated with the world's first lung cancer vaccine. CimaVax- EGF is a Cuban developed drug aimed at preventing the recurrence of the disease. Gomez is now back at work and once a month, she returns to the hospital for a series of intramuscular injections.
CARDIDAD GOMEZ LUNG CANCER PATIENT "I feel good, I have even gained some weight. I've been using the vaccine for two years and four months now and so far I've felt really good."
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DR YOANNA FLORES ONCOLOGIST "It has revolutionized lung cancer treatment in our country. It's a new therapeutic weapon for treating the disease. Patients are responding well and surviving for longer than those not being treated with it."
Early results were so positive that in 2016, the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in the United States persuaded the U.S. government to allow it to test the vaccine. The first time a Cuban produced drug is undergoing clinical trials in the U.S. The vaccine is just one of an impressive array of cancer drugs developed at Cuba's Center for Molecular Immunology.
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Recently, there have been more and more indications that Microsoft has shown a growing interest with the concept of open source software. Still not yet wanting to give up any kind of control over development, they started off slowly with the release of their open source tool set known as WiX.
Now I do realize this is hardly considered to be anything groundbreaking with regard to the software company's closed source nature. Regardless, there are those among us that did feel like they might be rethinking part of their old position. Contrary to Microsoft's past statements against open source software as a business model, the company is beginning to explore this as a secondary option. Yes, WiX is not standing alone here as there are other examples of open source dabbling from the software giant, but this is not the point of this article. No, this article is to explore the promise of an open source OS from one of the most powerful software corporations on the planet.


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Salud Pública de México
versión impresa ISSN 0036-3634
Salud pública Méx vol.52 supl.1 Cuernavaca ene. 2010
The status of non-transmissible chronic disease in Mexico based on the National Health and Nutrition Survey 2006
Non-transmissible chronic disease is the most pressing health problem in Mexico in recent decades. A clear indication of the magnitude of the problem is the fact that coronary heart disease and diabetes are the two leading causes of death in Mexico, followed by stroke.1
Metabolic syndrome (MS), which has been proposed as a risk indicator for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases,2 is a cluster of several cardio-metabolic risk factors —including abdominal obesity, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia and elevated blood pressure—3 related with lifestyle and genetics.4 Its prevalence is expected to increase in the same proportion as the reported prevalence of obesity increases.5 Thus, a fresh assessment of the epidemiology of MS may offer new perspectives for the future evolution of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
Type 2 diabetes is already one of the most frequent causes of demand for medical care, disability and mortality among the adult population in both developing and developed countries.4 Furthermore, the growing global epidemic of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) is expected to double by 2030,6 along with its associated morbidities: microvascular damage, ischemic heart diseases and stroke. In Mexico, the mortality rate for T2D increased 30% from 1998 to 2002, and it is the most common cause of hospital discharge; the already staggering costs associated with the care of these pathologies is, therefore, increasing quickly.7 Thus, type 2 diabetes has a notable social and economic impact in Mexico, and the evidence indicates that diabetes and its chronic complications generate the most significant expenditures for health care as a whole.8
Furthermore, in countries such as Mexico, in which diabetes is highly prevalent, the onset of the disease occurs earlier in life;9 a factor that increases the adverse consequences of diabetes.
Programs to prevent coronary heart disease (CHD) are primarily based on the proper detection of cardiovascular risk factors and effective therapies to achieve and sustain treatment goals. One of the main components of such interventions is the treatment of hypercholesterolemia, which has proved to be cost-effective.10 In addition, because the Mexican population is aging,11 periodic assessments of the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors is required. This information will help to predict cardiovascular mortality trends for the coming years and to design preventive strategies to cope with this health problem.
During the past 22 years, several probabilistic surveys have furnished information on the magnitude and distribution of chronic diseases and obesity in Mexico, including the 1988 and 1999 Mexican National Nutrition Surveys,12,13 the 1994 Mexican Chronic Diseases Survey,14 and the 2000 Mexican Health Survey.15 During 2005-2006, the National Institute of Public Health carried out the latest National Health and Nutrition Survey, a probabilistic survey that is nationally representative and has the power to make distinctions among geo-economic regions, urban and rural locations, and among each of the 32 states.16 The objectives of this survey were to provide information about the health and nutritional status of the Mexican population and its use of health services.
This issue of Salud Pública de México presents a series of articles that analyze data from the 2006 survey, addressing the epidemiology of non-transmissible chronic diseases based on several indicators of risk, including metabolic syndrome, hypertension, dyslipidemias and blood glucose. The reports also critically analyze the degree to which metabolic control of diabetes, dyslipidemias and hypertension is achieved among the overall population, which in some cases reflects the quality of the health care delivery. Some of the articles, those which include biochemical measurements (DM2, dyslipidemias and metabolic syndrome), are based on a randomly selected sub-sample, while others (such as those dealing with hypertension) are based on the full survey sample.
A methodological paper precedes the core of articles and describes the general design of the national survey, along with the basis for the selection of subsamples, procedures for blood sampling and the laboratory techniques used to measure biochemical variables (Barquera et al.).
The first original article (Rojas R et al.) describes the prevalence of metabolic syndrome, and is followed by a series of three papers analyzing 1) the overall frequency and distribution of type 2 diabetes and the degree of metabolic control of known diabetics measured by HbA1c (Villalpando S et al.), 2) the prevalence of early onset diabetes (Jiménez-Corona et al.) and 3) the status of diabetes care in the Mexican population (González-Villalpando et al.). Two other papers address the prevalence of dyslipidemias in the adult population (Aguilar-Salinas C et al.) and asses the challenge for the health system to prevent cardiovascular diseases, based on the potential to modify low density lipoprotein cholesterol (Gómez-Pérez FJ et al.). A final original article examines the prevalence of hypertension in the Mexican population (Barquera S et al.). The corollary of this issue is an article in which authors analyze critically, the trends in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemias and hypertension from 1993 through 2006 (Villalpando S et al).
Such an analysis provides a vision of the fastpace at which all these chronic non-transmissible diseases are growing and allows for predicting their magnitude and impact in the forthcoming years. This issue also includes a presentation paper written by the Mexican Vice Minister of Health, which highlights the importance of this type of research to the decision-making process involved in the design and adjustment of public health policies. The guest editors of this issue recognize the unrestricted grants furnished by Sanofi-Aventis laboratory to partially defray the cost of the laboratory determinations and by Unilever to defray the printing cost of this special issue.
The authors of this special issue of Salud Pública de México hope to contribute to a better understanding of the overwhelming health problems associated with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases by disseminating the evidence herein to a wide audience, not only in Mexico but also in other countries that share similar health and social conditions. Above all, our hope is that such information is useful to the design of policies and strategies to control and reduce the disease burden that impinges on the quality of life and survival of millions of women and men.
We declare that we have no conflicts of interest.
Salvador Villalpando*
Juan Rull Rodrigo‡
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3. Grundy SM, Brewer B, Cleeman JI, et al. Definition of metabolic syndrome. Report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/American Heart Association Conference on scientific issues related to definition. Circulation 2004;109:433-438. [ Links ]
4. Grundy SM. Metabolic Syndrome Pandemic. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 2008; 28:629-636. [ Links ]
5. Barquera S, Campos-Nonato I, Hernández-Barrera L, Flores M, Durazo-Arvizu R, Kanter R, Rivera JA. Obesity and central adiposity in Mexican adults: results from the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2006. Salud Pública Méx 2009; 51(sup 4):595-603. [ Links ]
6. Wild, S., G. Roglic, A. Green, R. Sicree, King H. Global prevalence of diabetes: estimates for the year 2000 and projections for 2030. Diabetes Care, 2004. 27: 1047-53. [ Links ]
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12. Sepulveda-Amor J, Lezana M, Tapia-Conyer R, Valdespino J, Madrigal H, Kumate J. Nutritional status of pre-school children and women in Mexico: results of a probabilistic national survey. Gaceta Medica de Mexico 1990;126:207-224. [ Links ]
13. Rivera J, Shamah T, Villalpando S, González-Cossío T, Hernández B, Sepúlveda J. Encuesta Nacional de Nutrición 1999. Cuernavaca, Morelos: INSP; 2000. [ Links ]
14. Secretaría de Salud, Encuesta Nacional de Enfermedades Crónicas. México, D.F.: Secretaría de Salud, 1993. [ Links ]
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* Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública. Cuernavaca, Morelos, México.
‡ Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán. México, DF, México.
Av. Universidad 655, Edificio de Gobierno, Planta Baja, Col. Santa María Ahuacatitlán, Cuernavaca, Morelos, MX, 62508, (52 73) 17-5745
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