dietary supplementsNational Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyquantitydurationreasonsadherenceDietary supplement use is common among US adults. We aimed to investigate the quantity, duration, adherence, and reasons for supplement use in individuals who take supplements. Data from 2011 to 2018 from the...
The DS component, administered after the dietary recall, collected data on usage of all vitamins, minerals, herbals, and non-prescription antacids over the same time frame. Use of DS containing vitamin C, reported by 28% of the sample, was most common; vitamin C intake (mean ± SE) was...
Focuses on the strengths and potential approaches for improvement of food and dietary supplement databases used by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in the U.S. Use of Nutrient Databank System; Effect of changing food supply on nutrient databases; Gaps in food and dietary supple...
Data from the 2007–2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) suggested that nearly half of U.S. adults aged 20 to 69 reported taking at least one dietary supplement in the past month. Logistic regression showed that the following factors were independently associated with a ...
Carotenoids have been shown to have multiple health benefits, including antioxidant and anti-inflammatory. The data for the effect of dietary specific carotenoids on biological aging is limited. Our study aims to examine the association between dietary c
In this study, the average value of the two 24-h dietary intake data of omega-3 PUFAs or omega-6 PUFAs was used, and dichotomized these PUFAs according to the upper tertiles of intake in the study children and adolescents. Thus, the cut-off values for omega-3 PUFAs and omega-6 ...
Despite these recommendations, dietary supplement use among pregnant women in the US has not been described using nationally representative data. Our objective was to examine the prevalence of and characteristics associated with dietary supplement use among pregnant women using NHANES 1999–2006 (n=1,...
Sixty-one percent of older men and 73% of older women reported using at least one dietary supplement (DS) in the past 30 days in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2007–2010. The purpose of this analysis was to characterize the types of DS products used and the...
We used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999–2000 to 2017–2018 to study trends in calcium derived from diet and dietary supplements among the US population aged 2 years, stratified by sex, age group, race, and ethnicity. Among the 80,880 participants...
Herein, this study aims to explore the overall effect of dietary multivitamins consumption on childhood asthma. Methods Data of children and adolescents (aged 2-17 years old) were extracted from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) database in 2015-2018 in this cross-...