Research Article
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 (
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| Variables | DS usersa | 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) | | |
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. aUse dietary supplements for three consecutive months in the past year. #Missing data excluded. |