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Associations of health literacy with blood pressure and dietary salt intake among adults: A systematic review
(Nutrients, 2021-12-17)
Health literacy has been recognized as a significant social determinant of health, defined as the ability to access, understand, appraise, and apply health-related information across healthcare, disease prevention, and ...
Education for non-citizen children in Malaysia during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study
(PLOS ONE, 2021-12-02)
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted schooling for children worldwide. Most vulnerable are non-citizen children without access to public education. This study aims to explore challenges faced in achieving education access for ...
Maternal diet during pregnancy and infant respiratory morbidity: A prospective study
(Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2021-12)
Background and objectives: Maternal diet during pregnancy may impact infant respiratory morbidity. The aim was to determine the association between antenatal maternal diet and respiratory morbidity of their infants during ...
Randomized controlled trial on the effect of partially hydrolyzed guar gum supplementation on diarrhea frequency and gut microbiome count among pelvic radiation patients
(Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, 2021-11-23)
Background: Radiation therapy is the treatment of pelvic cancers, with diarrhea often being the most frequent acute side effect. This study aimed to determine the efficacy of partially hydrolyzed guar gum (PHGG) usage in ...
The longitudinal relationship between nutritional status and anaemia among Malaysian adolescents
(The Lancet Regional Health–Western Pacific, 2021-10)
Introduction: The triple burden of malnutrition characterised by stunting and wasting, overweight/obesity, and anaemia experienced by Malaysians causes severe and long-lasting damage during the period of development and ...
Facilitators and barriers to implementing healthy school canteen intervention among Malaysian adolescents: A qualitative study
(Nutrients, 2021-09-01)
This study evaluated implementing a school-based intervention to promote healthier dietary habits in the school environment among Malaysian adolescents using qualitative methods. This qualitative study was conducted in ...
Preferred method of purchasing supplements among government servants in Putrajaya
(Malaysian Journal of Public Health Medicine, 2021-08-28)
Despite the risk of buying dangerous unregistered or counterfeit health supplement products online, the purchases still persist. This study aimed to identify the current preferred purchasing method and factors that influenced ...
Barriers, enablers and perceptions on dietary salt reduction in the out-of-home sectors: A scoping review
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021-07-30)
In this review, we have investigated the perceptions, barriers, and enabling factors that were responsible for a dietary salt reduction in the out-of-home sectors. For this purpose, we examined different knowledge databases ...
Developing a policy to reduce the salt content of food consumed outside the home in Malaysia: protocol of a qualitative study
(BMJ Open, 2021-07-23)
Introduction: Current salt intake in Malaysia is high. The existing national salt reduction policy has faced slow progress and does not yet include measures to address the out of home sector. Dishes consumed in the out of ...
Longitudinal vitamin D deficiency among Malaysian pregnant women and its correlation with neonatal serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels
(Frontiers in Public Health, 2021-06-29)
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the longitudinal relationship between maternal vitamin D concentrations during pregnancy and neonatal vitamin D concentrations at birth.
Materials and Methods: A prospective ...