Dietary supplement use and medical conditions: The VITAL study
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Over half of U.S. adults use vitamin or mineral supplements, and some are likely using supplements to treat chronic diseases or risk factors for disease. Information on the relationship between supplement use and medical conditions is useful to health professionals to understand the self-medication behavior of their patients, and important for researchers because medical conditions may be potential confounding factors in observational studies of supplement use and disease risk.