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Network Medicine: a fascinating development.

Posted on August 08, 2007

By Dov Michaeli MD, Ph.DIn my previous posting I reviewed a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine which showed that obesity can spread among friends and family just like any infectious disease. But unlike infectious diseases, physical proximity did not count for much: obesity did not spread among neighbors. It did spread among family members, regardless of geographical location. The strongest influence on the spread of obesity was friendship, in particular mutual friendship. This was a totally unexpected finding. The paper had some unavoidable flaws. For instance, in assessing...

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