Nutrition Journal

Table 2 Purpose of dietary supplement use

From: Behaviors of consumers, physicians and pharmacists in response to adverse events associated with dietary supplement use

	AE^a		All^b
	n	%	n	%
Maintenance of health	2336	75.5	33,347	78.5
Improvements to health	936	30.2	9500	22.4
For beauty	841	27.2	9977	23.5
Prevention of diseases	742	24.0	7906	18.6
Weight loss	738	23.8	7014	16.5
Treatment of diseases	222	7.2	1714	4.0
Others	63	2.0	821	1.9

^asubjects who experienced adverse events (n = 3095)
^ball subjects who were using or used to use dietary supplement in preliminary survey (n = 42,489)

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