Metabolic syndrome encompasses increased sugar levels, high blood pressure, abnormally lipids fractions and fatty liver with the central apple-shaped obesity.
The findings showed that people who had a heavy body shape from their childhood were at highest risk of mortality.
Researchers first identified the relationship between the variant near KLF14 and Type-2 diabetes risk in a large, genome-wide association study of a broad population.
The 36-year-old, who has been dieting for years, feels that while body shape is important, but it's not everything.