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

Table 3

Logistic regression analysis of the factors in dietary supplement use among Mongolian people.

Variables	Crude OR (95% CI)	Adjusted OR^a (95% CI)	value^b
Sex (vs. men)	1.411 (1.063, 1.875)	1.318 (0.928, 1.871)	0.123
Age (vs. ≤34)			0.257
35-44	0.600 (0.382, 0.942)	0.875 (0.500, 1.530)
45-54	0.988 (0.624, 1.563)	1.484 (0.836, 2.633)
55-64	1.188 (0.781, 1.807)	1.312 (0.811, 2.124)
65^+	0.932 (0.637, 1.363)	1.041 (0.688, 1.576)
Region (vs. urban)			0.013
Rural	0.302 (0.191, 0.477)	0.528 (0.313, 0.889)
Pasturing areas	0.341 (0.223, 0.522)	0.504 (0.317, 0.802)
Education (vs. primary school or lower)			0.005
Junior or senior high school	3.193 (2.140, 4.766)	3.112 (1.568, 6.177)
College or higher	2.067 (1.428, 2.992)	2.185 (1.216, 3.925)
Occupation (vs. mental effort)			0.208
Physical effort	0.755 (0.529, 1.077)	1.025 (0.606, 1.732)
Other	1.707 (1.259, 2.316)	1.341 (0.960, 1.874)
Tobacco use (vs. daily smoker)			0.149
Occasional smoker	1.841 (1.245, 2.721)	1.628 (1.021, 2.596)
Ex-smoker	1.506 (0.515, 4.403)	1.205(0.392, 3.700)
Nonsmoker	1.150 (0.742, 1.783)	0.912 (0.552, 1.508)
Total cholesterol abnormalities (vs. no)			0.071
Yes	0.581 (0.403,0.838)	0.638 (0.391, 1.039)
Triglycerides abnormalities (vs. no)			<0.001
Yes	1.548 (1.181, 2.029)	2.029 (1.491, 2.935)
HDL-cholesterol abnormalities (vs. no)			0.339
Yes	1.034 (0.793, 1.349)	1.153 (0.861, 1.545)
LDL-cholesterol abnormalities (vs. no)			0.560
Yes	0.870 (0.601, 1.258)	1.157 (0.708, 1.891)
Uric acid abnormalities (vs. no)			0.081
Yes	0.747 (0.547, 1.019)	0.740 (0.528, 1.038)

. ^aAll covariates in the table were mutually adjusted. ^b value after correction.