obesity among urban primary schoolchildren

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Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia ... Three urban public primary schools in the district of Petaling, Selangor were surveyed.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

JUMMEC 2007 : 10(1)

OBESITY AMONG URBAN PRIMARY SCHOOLCHILDREN

Shariff AH1, Sazlina SG2, Shamsul AS3 1 Unit of Sports Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2 Unit of Family Medicine, Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400, UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 3 Department of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Jalan Yaacob Latiff, Bandar Tun Razak, 56000 Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

ABSTRACT: 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 boys (p