Thursday, July 26, 2007

obesity as a contagious disease

great article today in NEJM that is right at the intersection of human behavioral ecology and medicine - Christakis and Fowler analyze a social network and make an argument that obesity spreads horizontally throughout....
ah, if only i would have thought of a project like that while at michigan!

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/4/370

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