The Association of Breakfast Frequency and Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Risk Factors among Adolescents in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Mustafa, Norashikin, Majid, Hazreen Abdul, Toumpakari, Zoi, Carroll, Harriet Amy, Jalaludin, Muhammad Yazid, Al Sadat, Nabilla, Johnson, Laura
• Format: Article
• Published: MDPI 2019
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/23921/; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11050973
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

Breakfast frequency is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in Western populations, possibly via the types of food eaten or the timing of food consumption, but associations in Malaysian adolescents are unknown. While the timing of breakfast is similar, the type of food consumed at break...