Analysis of Dietary Supplement Use and Influencing Factors in the Mongolian Population

Table 1

DS users and DS nonusers among Mongolian people by sociodemographic and lifestyle characteristics ().

Variables	DS users^a	DS nonusers		value
	(%)	(%)
Total	270 (18.83)	1164 (81.17)
Sex (men)	84 (15.64)	453 (84.36)	5.702	0.017
Age
≤34	45 (26.79)	123 (73.21)	9.404	0.052
35-44	38 (18.18)	171 (81.82)
45-54	51 (15.60)	276 (84.40)
55-64	82 (19.07)	348 (80.93)
65^+	54 (18.00)	246 (82.00)
Region
Urban	84 (23.40)	275 (76.60)	31.264	<0.001
Rural	158 (21.27)	585 (78.73)
Pastoral areas	28 (8.43)	304 (91.57)
Education^#
Primary school or lower	75 (13.54)	479 (86.46)	33.880	<0.001
Junior or senior high school	134 (19.48)	554 (80.52)
College or higher	57 (33.33)	114 (66.67)
Occupation
Mental effort	68 (26.98)	184 (73.02)	24.422	<0.001
Physical effort	101 (14.05)	618 (85.95)
Other	101 (21.81)	362 (78.19)
BMI
Underweight	8 (23.53)	26 (76.47)	5.922	0.115
Normal weight	98 (20.37)	383 (79.63)
Overweight	101 (20.24)	398 (79.76)
Obese	63 (15.00)	357 (85.00)
Abdominal obesity	100 (17.45)	473 (82.55)	1.183	0.277
Vegetarian	8 (18.60)	35 (81.40)	0.001	0.970
Sleep problems	168 (19.00)	716 (81.00)	0.047	0.829
Diabetes	30 (19.87)	121 (80.13)	0.119	0.730
Hypertension	125 (17.43)	592 (82.57)	1.825	0.177
Coronary disease	16 (15.24)	89 (84.76)	0.956	0.328
Stroke	12 (16.44)	61 (83.56)	0.287	0.592
Tobacco use
Daily smoker	34 (12.45)	239 (87.55)	9.932	0.019
Occasional smoker	4 (14.81)	23 (85.19)
Ex-smoker	28 (18.54)	123 (81.46)
Nonsmoker	204 (20.75)	779 (79.25)
Alcohol use
Daily drinker	11 (15.94)	58 (84.06)	0.742	0.690
Occasional drinker	68 (20.06)	271 (79.94)
Non-drinker	191 (18.62)	835 (81.38)

. ^aUse dietary supplements for three consecutive months in the past year. ^#Missing data excluded.