Lifestyle practice among malaysian university students

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1895-1903

  Al Naggar, Redhwan Ahmed ^a   Bobryshev, Yuri V ^b   Mohd Noor, Nor Aini Binti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lifestyle; Malaysia; Practice; University students

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880414008     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2013.14.3.1895     Document Type: Article

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