TY - JOUR
T1 - Prevalence and determinants of sex-specific dietary supplement use in a greek cohort
AU - Rontogianni, Marina O.
AU - Kanellopoulou, Afroditi
AU - Markozannes, Georgios
AU - Bouras, Emmanouil
AU - Derdemezis, Christos
AU - Doumas, Michail T.
AU - Sigounas, Dimitrios E.
AU - Tzovaras, Vasilios T.
AU - Vakalis, Konstantinos
AU - Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B.
AU - Aretouli, Eleni
AU - Tzoulaki, Ioanna
AU - Evangelou, Evangelos
AU - Rizos, Evangelos C.
AU - Ntzani, Evangelia
AU - Tsilidis, Konstantinos K.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by the Hellenic Republic: Operational Programme Epirus 2014?2020 of the Prefecture of Epirus (H?1AB-0028180), and the Operational Programme ?Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship & Innovation? (O?? 5047228).The authors thank Chryssa Soutziou and Konstantinos Chaliasos for collecting data in the Epirus Health Study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Funding Information:
This study was funded by the Hellenic Republic: Operational Programme Epirus 2014–2020 of the Prefecture of Epirus (HΠ1AB-0028180), and the Operational Programme “Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship & Innovation” (OΠΣ 5047228).The authors thank Chryssa Soutziou and Konstantinos Chaliasos for collecting data in the Epirus Health Study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2021/8
Y1 - 2021/8
N2 - We describe the profile of dietary supplement use and its correlates in the Epirus Health Study cohort, which consists of 1237 adults (60.5% women) residing in urban north-west Greece. The association between dietary supplement use and demographic characteristics, lifestyle behaviors, personal medical history and clinical measurements was assessed using logistic regression models, separately for women and men. The overall prevalence of dietary supplement use was 31.4%, and it was higher in women (37.3%) compared to men (22.4%; p-value = 4.2−08 ). Based on multivariable logistic regression models, dietary supplement use in women was associated with age (positively until middle-age and slightly negatively afterwards), the presence of a chronic health condition (OR = 1.71; 95% CI, 1.18–2.46), lost/removed teeth (OR = 0.52; 95% CI, 0.35–0.78) and diastolic blood pressure (OR per 5 mmHg increase =0.84; 95% CI, 0.73–0.96); body mass index and worse general health status were borderline inversely associated. In men, dietary supplement use was positively associated with being employed (OR = 2.53; 95% CI, 1.21–5.29). A considerable proportion of our sample used dietary supplements, and the associated factors differed between women and men.
AB - We describe the profile of dietary supplement use and its correlates in the Epirus Health Study cohort, which consists of 1237 adults (60.5% women) residing in urban north-west Greece. The association between dietary supplement use and demographic characteristics, lifestyle behaviors, personal medical history and clinical measurements was assessed using logistic regression models, separately for women and men. The overall prevalence of dietary supplement use was 31.4%, and it was higher in women (37.3%) compared to men (22.4%; p-value = 4.2−08 ). Based on multivariable logistic regression models, dietary supplement use in women was associated with age (positively until middle-age and slightly negatively afterwards), the presence of a chronic health condition (OR = 1.71; 95% CI, 1.18–2.46), lost/removed teeth (OR = 0.52; 95% CI, 0.35–0.78) and diastolic blood pressure (OR per 5 mmHg increase =0.84; 95% CI, 0.73–0.96); body mass index and worse general health status were borderline inversely associated. In men, dietary supplement use was positively associated with being employed (OR = 2.53; 95% CI, 1.21–5.29). A considerable proportion of our sample used dietary supplements, and the associated factors differed between women and men.
KW - Determinants
KW - Dietary supplements
KW - Epirus Health Study
KW - Greece
KW - Prevalence
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U2 - 10.3390/nu13082857
DO - 10.3390/nu13082857
M3 - Article
C2 - 34445018
AN - SCOPUS:85113255799
SN - 2072-6643
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Nutrients
JF - Nutrients
IS - 8
M1 - 2857
ER -