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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. 

Diabetes and higher body mass index (BMI) contribute to pathological upstaging in renal cell carcinoma, according to a study. Preoperative tumour size, increased age, and male sex are also significantly associated with upstaging.

An open-label, randomized, parallel-design clinical trial demonstrates weight loss as well as decreases in fasting glucose, insulin and insulin resistance in overweight and obese Hong Kong Chinese individuals after high-fibre dietary intervention supplemented with synbiotics.