High prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency and its association with BMI-for-age among primary school children in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Khor, Geok L ^a   Chee, Winnie S S ^a   Shariff, Zalilah M ^b   Poh, Bee K ^c   Arumugam, Mohan ^d   Rahman, Jamalludin A ^e   Theobald, Hannah E ^f  

^a INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d Serdang Hospital   (Malaysia)

^e INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^f GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY MASS; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALAYSIA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 79751531418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-95     Document Type: Article

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