The Foundation has contributed RM 50,000 to start up a fund for genetic testing for inherited cardiovascular disease at Sarawak Heart Centre. An inherited cardiovascular disease is one that has been passed on through families. Many cardiac diseases can be inherited, including cardiomyopathy, high cholesterol, arrhythmias and congenital heart disease. They can affect people of any age. People with inherited cardiovascular can present with palpitations, fainting spells, shortness of breath, chest pain and sudden death. Some may have no symptoms at all. If one parent has a faulty gene, there is a 50% chance that a person could have it too. And if the person carries the faulty gene, there…

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30 November 2019

Our heartiest congratulations go to Dr Melvin Chung Hsien Liang, whose research on childhood obesity was funded by the Foundation. Dr Melvin was awarded the First Prize in the Young Investigator’s Symposium, Malaysian Association for the Study of Obesity (MASO) 2019 Scientific Conference on Obesity in Kuala Lumpur on 16 October 2019.  Later that month, he received the Suaidi Award for the best performing postgraduate student throughout the MPH and DrPH programme in UNIMAS in Kuching. His research on Childhood Obesity: Effects of Physical Activity on Nutritional Status and Motor Skills Performance among children aged 4-6 years old in Peri-Urban Kuching, Sarawak has been featured in a few issues of…