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People with high or medium genetic risk of abdominal obesity but who have a healthy lifestyle are less likely to develop coronary heart disease (CHD) than those with low genetic risk and an unhealthy lifestyle, a study has shown.

Increasing numbers of younger people are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) recently and this is a worrying phenomenon, said consultant endocrinologist Dr Teoh Wei Leng.

Painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (pDPN) is the most common chronic complication of diabetes mellitus resulting from nerve damage in patients’ lower limbs.