Article: Diabetes and the metabolic syndrome


New Straits Times
08-03-2003
Diabetes and the metabolic syndrome
Edition: 2*
Section: Science

YOU can help prevent diabetes by lowering your cardiovascular risk factors.

"Don't you know it's not polite to ask a lady her age?" Rajesh teases, as she leads the writer into the living room.
"I'm coming to 58," she finally declares as she lowers her oversized body onto the sofa.

"My husband passed away five years ago," she says. "My eldest son now runs ..." Rajesh's sentence hangs in mid-air as she takes a breath. She then continues, "My eldest son now runs the family business."

She wheezes a little and says, "I'm sorry but I haven't been feeling very well. It's my heart. My doctor says that, ...

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