Infrequent Breakfast Consumption Is Associated with Higher Body Adiposity and Abdominal Obesity in Malaysian School-Aged Adolescents

Abdullah Nurul-Fadhilah; Pey Sze Teo; Inge Huybrechts; Leng Huat Foo

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059297

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Infrequent Breakfast Consumption Is Associated with Higher Body Adiposity and Abdominal Obesity in Malaysian School-Aged Adolescents

Abdullah Nurul-Fadhilah,

Affiliation Program of Nutrition, School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia
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Pey Sze Teo,

Affiliation Program of Nutrition, School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia
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Inge Huybrechts,

Affiliations Dietary Exposure Assessment Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France, Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Leng Huat Foo

* E-mail: lhfoo@kb.usm.my

Affiliation Program of Nutrition, School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia
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Infrequent Breakfast Consumption Is Associated with Higher Body Adiposity and Abdominal Obesity in Malaysian School-Aged Adolescents

Abdullah Nurul-Fadhilah,
Pey Sze Teo,
Inge Huybrechts,
Leng Huat Foo

Published: March 8, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059297

About the Authors

Abdullah Nurul-Fadhilah

Affiliation Program of Nutrition, School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia

Pey Sze Teo

Affiliation Program of Nutrition, School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia

Inge Huybrechts

Affiliations Dietary Exposure Assessment Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France, Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Leng Huat Foo

* E-mail: lhfoo@kb.usm.my

Affiliation Program of Nutrition, School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AN LHF. Performed the experiments: AN PST. Analyzed the data: AN LHF. Wrote the paper: AN IH LHF.

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