Professional health: obesity status and 24-hours diet recall of health-staff working at selected three primary care clinics in Kuantan, Malaysia

Professional health: obesity status and 24-hours diet recall of health-staff working at selected three primary care clinics in Kuantan, Malaysia

Obesity statistics in Malaysia rank sixth with highest adult obesity rate in Asia. Therapeutic Lifestyle-Change diet (TLC-Diet) is advised by health-practitioners to over-weight/obese patients as one component of lifestyle modification therapy. However, there is limited data on obesity-status and di...

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Main Authors: Tin, Myo Han, Md. Aris, Mohd. Aznan, Mohd Shukri, Nor Azwani, Osman, Iskandar Firzada, Thuraiapprah, Mahendran, Abdullah, Fa’iza, Sahrin, Saidatul Nabila, Ismail, Nur Athirah, Mazubir, Nizatul Nuraih
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2016
Subjects:
R Medicine (General)
RK Dentistry
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/51913/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/51913/1/51913.pdf
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Summary:Obesity statistics in Malaysia rank sixth with highest adult obesity rate in Asia. Therapeutic Lifestyle-Change diet (TLC-Diet) is advised by health-practitioners to over-weight/obese patients as one component of lifestyle modification therapy. However, there is limited data on obesity-status and diet-patterns among health-practitioners who are dealing with obese-patients in primary-care.

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