Department of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt.; Department of Metabolism,
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C.; Department of Medicine,
Medical College of Virginia, Health Sciences Division, Virginia Commonwealth University,
and McGuire Veterans Administration Hospital, Richmond, Va., and the Department of
Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, S. C.
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