Table 1.
Subgroups of supplements used by used by current and ex-serving Australian Defence Force personnel (n 14 032) who deployed to the Middle East between 2001 and 2009
| Total | Contains creatine | Contains caffeine | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Bodybuilding supplements | ||||||
| Amino acids/protein products | 1702 | 90·1 | 86 | 5·1 | 17 | 1·0 |
| Multivitamin/herb compound | 175 | 9·3 | 72 | 41·1 | 42 | 24·0 |
| Carbohydrates and sugars | 0 | 0·0 | ||||
| Stimulants | 0 | 0·0 | ||||
| Creatine monohydrate | 160 | 8·5 | 160 | 100·0 | 0 | 0·0 |
| Other (non-prescription) | 9 | 0·5 | 0 | 0·0 | 0 | 0·0 |
| Other (prescription medicine) | 0 | 0·0 | ||||
| Total users of bodybuilding supplements* | 1890 | 100·0 | 307 | 16·2 | 59 | 3·1 |
| Energy supplements | ||||||
| Amino acids/protein products | 568 | 21·2 | 201 | 35·4 | 19 | 3·3 |
| Multivitamin/herb compound | 505 | 18·9 | 0 | 0·0 | 1 | 0·2 |
| Carbohydrates and sugars | 249 | 9·3 | 0 | 0·0 | 7 | 2·8 |
| Stimulants | 1460 | 54·6 | 1 | 0·1 | 1442 | 98·8 |
| Creatine monohydrate | 0 | 0·0 | ||||
| Other (non-prescription) | 0 | 0·0 | ||||
| Other (prescription medicine) | 0 | 0·0 | ||||
| Total users of energy supplements* | 2676 | 100·0 | 202 | 7·5 | 1463 | 54·7 |
| Weight-loss supplements | ||||||
| Amino acids/protein products | 386 | 47·5 | 3 | 0·8 | 13 | 3·4 |
| Multivitamin/herb compound | 99 | 12·2 | 0 | 0·0 | 18 | 18·2 |
| Carbohydrates and sugars | 223 | 27·4 | 0 | 0·0 | 0 | 0·0 |
| Stimulants | 78 | 9·6 | 0 | 0·0 | 76 | 97·4 |
| Creatine monohydrate | 0 | 0·0 | ||||
| Other (non-prescription) | 7 | 0·9 | 0 | 0·0 | 0 | 0·0 |
| Other (prescription medicine) | 47 | 5·8 | 0 | 0·0 | 0 | 0·0 |
| Total users of weight-loss supplements* | 813 | 100·0 | 3 | 0·4 | 105 | 12·9 |
*
Total number of Australian Defence Force personnel in these categories do not equal to the sum of column responses because participants may have used more than one type of bodybuilding/energy/weight-loss supplement.