Dietary Supplement Use Among Adults: United States, 2017-2018

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• Personal Author:
  Potischman, Nancy ; Stierman, Bryan ; Mishra, Suruchi ; Gahche, Jaime J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  Suggested citation: Mishra S, Stierman B, Gahche JJ, Potischman N. Dietary supplement use among adults: United States, 2017-2018. NCHS Data Brief, no 399. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15620/cdc:101131.
  
  • From 2007-2008 through 2017-2018, the prevalence of dietary supplement use increased in all age groups among U.S. adults.
  
  • The use of two, three, and four or more dietary supplements increased with age, while the percentage of adults not using any dietary supplement decreased with age.
  
  • Among U.S. adults aged 20 and over, 57.6% used any dietary supplement in the past 30 days, and use was higher among women (63.8%) than men (50.8%).
  
  • Dietary supplement use increased with age, overall and in both sexes, and was highest among women aged 60 and over (80.2%).
  
  • The most common types of dietary supplements used by all age groups were multivitamin-mineral supplements, followed by vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acid supplements.
  
  db399-H.pdf
  
  Dietary supplement use is common in the United States (1). The additional nutrients provided by dietary supplements can help meet recommended nutrient targets but can also potentially lead to excess intakes (2,3). This report describes recent prevalence estimates for dietary supplement use among U.S. adults, the distribution of the number of dietary supplements used, and the most common types of dietary supplements used. Trends in dietary supplement use from 2007-2008 through 2017-2018 are also reported.
  
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  Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adult Dietary Supplements Health Behavior
• Keywords:
  vitamin D, folic acid, calcium, trends
• Source:
  National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
• Series:
  NCHS Data Briefs
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Statistics ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Pages in Document:
  8 pdf pages
• Issue:
  399
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
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