Clustering of lifestyle risk behaviours and its determinants among school-going adolescents in a middle-income country: a cross-sectional study

• Main Authors: Chien Huey Teh (Author), Ming Woey Teh (Author), Kuang Hock Lim (Author), Chee Cheong Kee (Author), Mohd Ghazali Sumarni (Author), Pei Pei Heng (Author), Tajul Hassan Mohd Zahari (Author), Ying Ying Chan (Author), Md Iderus Nuur Hafiza (Author), Eng Ong Tee (Author), Kamaludin Fadzilah (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Lifestyle risk behaviours such as smoking, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour and low fruit/vegetable intake have been identified as the major causes of chronic diseases. Such behaviours are usually instigated in adolescence and tend to persist into adu...