High body fat percentage and low consumption of dairy products were associated with vitamin D inadequacy among older women in Malaysia

Kok Hong Leiu; Yit Siew Chin; Zalilah Mohd Shariff; Manohar Arumugam; Yoke Mun Chan

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228803

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High body fat percentage and low consumption of dairy products were associated with vitamin D inadequacy among older women in Malaysia

Kok Hong Leiu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kok Hong Leiu, Zalilah Mohd Shariff, Yoke Mun Chan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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Yit Siew Chin ,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: chinys@upm.edu.my

Affiliations Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Research Centre of Excellence, Nutrition and Non-Communicable Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7609-1944

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Zalilah Mohd Shariff ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Kok Hong Leiu, Zalilah Mohd Shariff, Yoke Mun Chan

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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Manohar Arumugam,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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Yoke Mun Chan

Contributed equally to this work with: Kok Hong Leiu, Zalilah Mohd Shariff, Yoke Mun Chan

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Research Centre of Excellence, Nutrition and Non-Communicable Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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High body fat percentage and low consumption of dairy products were associated with vitamin D inadequacy among older women in Malaysia

Kok Hong Leiu,
Yit Siew Chin,
Zalilah Mohd Shariff,
Manohar Arumugam,
Yoke Mun Chan

Published: February 13, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228803

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