Obesity among urban primary schoolchildren

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Obesity among urban primary schoolchildren

Three urban public primary schools in the district of Petaling, Selangor were surveyed for obesity amongst the schoolchildren and factors related to it. The prevalence of obesity amongst primary schoolchildren, with the mean age of 8.91 years was 9.5%. In addition, it was more prevalent among the bo...

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Main Authors:	A. Hamid, Mohamad Shariff, Shariff Ghazali, Sazlina, Shah, Shamsul Azhar
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya 2007
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/49436/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/49436/1/Obesity%20among%20urban%20primary%20schoolchildren.pdf

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