Prevalence and factors associated with overweight and obesity among Malaysian post graduate students in a public university

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Prevalence and factors associated with overweight and obesity among Malaysian post graduate students in a public university

Overweight and obesity is a major public health problem globally because they increase the burden of non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, and cancers. Many studies on overweight and obesity in the universities focused on the undergraduate students and there is little informa...

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Main Authors:	Abba, Shaima’u Kabir, Md Said, Salmiah, Ismail, Suriani
Format:	Article
Published:	Community Health Society Malaysia 2014
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35029/

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