News & Updates

The Seremban Diabetes (SeDia) Cohort Study, the first large-scale diabetes study of its kind in Malaysia has been launched by the Ministry of Health Malaysia (MOH) and International Medical University (IMU). 

In pregnant women with obesity, supplementation with multi-strain probiotics does not appear to have favourable effects on the metabolic or inflammatory biomarkers in mothers and on the body composition of their offspring, according to a study.

Synbiotics V5 and V7 effectively reduce body weight in individuals with obesity or overweight undergoing lifestyle modification, as shown in a study.

A study on adult patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) treated with insulin for at least 6 months showed 2-in-5 patients had lipohypertrophy.

The presence of endometriosis does not appear to contribute to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes in women, according to a study.

For postmenopausal women with a history of gestational diabetes, delivering high birth weight infants or hypertensive disorders of pregnancy poses a heightened risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) in the future, according to a study.

For a significant number of boys with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), puberty may start early than it used to, as reported in a study for Greece.