Table 4 Number (and percent) of medication use by supplement category
NHANES 2007-10
Medication type No supplement use (n = 609) Single supplement or single purpose supplement (n = 158) Multi-vitamin/mineral supplement (n = 224) MDS¹ (n = 786) LTMDS¹ (n = 156)
¹Abbreviations:
MDS = multiple dietary supplement use; LTMDS = long-term multiple dietary supplement use.

²Median (25^th, 75^th percentiles)

Cardiovascular 383 (36.9) 105 (41.8) 144 (41.0) 492 (45.3) 22 (14.1)

CNS Agents 206 (19.9) 62 (28.0) 75 (22.6) 262 (26.2) 4 (2.6)

Coagulation Modifiers 70 (5.4) 23 (7.4) 17 (4.0) 75 (5.5) 7 (4.5)

GI Agents 134 (13.4) 34 (14.2) 50 (16.9) 210 (21.2) 5 (3.2)

Metabolic 270 (24.89) 84 (35.8) 109 (31.3) 413 (38.7) 13 (8.3)

Psychotherapeutic 125 (13.8) 30 (16.8) 43 (13.7) 152 (17.4) 1 (0.6)

Respiratory 84 (8.8) 18 (7.9) 31 (10.5) 109 (11.2) 3 (1.9)

Miscellaneous 112 (12.1) 39 (19.5) 56 (19.) 185 (19.1) 13 (8.3)

Number of self-reported medications² 1.98 (0.69, 3.83) 2.50 (1.11, 3.88) 2.08 (0.95, 3.65) 2.2 (1.00, 3.96) 0 (0.00, 0.30)