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Prevalence of Dietary Supplement Use among Athletes Worldwide: A Scoping Review

Daher, Jana, Mallick, Moriah, El Khoury, Dalia·2022·Nutrients
DOI 10.3390/nu14194109
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Athletes represent a major part of dietary supplement users. This scoping review aims to explore the prevalence of dietary supplement use among athletes worldwide, most commonly used supplements, sources of information on dietary supplements and their reasons for use of these supplements. PubMed, CINAHL, MEDLINE, and PsycInfo were searched for original research articles. Studies were included if they involved athletes, identified the prevalence of dietary supplement use, and were published after 2017. A total of 26 articles were reviewed. Prevalence of dietary supplement use varied among articles, but sex-based differences related to the types of used dietary supplements existed. Generally, the findings were consistent in terms of reasons for use and sources of information. Unfortunately, the lack of homogeneity regarding the definition of dietary supplements, definition of use, reporting timeframes, and data collection methods complicates the attempt to compare the findings among studies.

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Authors
Daher, J., Mallick, M., & El Khoury, D.
Affiliations
Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
ORCID
Daher, Jana
Venue
Nutrients
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2022-10-03
Volume
14
Issue
19
Pages
4109
ISSN
2072-6643
DOI
10.3390/nu14194109
Cited by
70
References
7
Language
en
Licence
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)

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