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. 2013 Aug 13;8(8):e70733. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070733

Table 1. Demographic, socioeconomic and lifestyle correlates of dietary supplement use in pregnant women of the NutriNet-Santé cohort study.

All Pregnant Supplement Supplement Age adjusted logistic
women Non-Users Users1 regression analyses
(n = 903) (n = 317) (n = 586)
n % n % n % OR P2
Age3 31.7 4.07 31.1 4.22 32.1 3.94 1.06 [1.02–1.10] 0.001
Geographical region 0.0007
Paris metropolitan area 198 21.9 46 14.5 152 25.9 1.00
North 66 7.3 33 10.4 33 5.6 0.26 [0.09–0.77]
North-West 142 15.7 48 15.1 94 16.0 0.61 [0.38–0.99]
Center 225 24.9 76 24.0 149 25.4 0.61 [0.40–0.95]
South-West 71 7.9 27 8.5 44 7.5 0.52 [0.29–0.93]
North-East 97 10.7 37 11.7 60 10.2 0.52 [0.31–0.89]
South-East 89 9.9 42 13.2 47 8.0 0.35 [0.20–0.59]
Corsica & overseas depts/territories 15 1.7 8 2.5 7 1.2 0.26 [0.09–0.77]
Marital Status 0.6
Married or living with partner 847 93.8 295 93.1 552 94.2 1.00
Single 56 6.2 22 6.9 34 5.8 0.84 [0.48–1.48]
Number of children
0 518 57.4 171 53.9 347 59.2 1.00 0.003
1 262 29.0 97 30.6 165 28.2 0.70 [0.50–0.97]
2 & more 123 13.6 49 15.5 74 12.6 0.52 [0.34–0.82]
Education 0.4
<12 years of schooling 37 4.1 16 5.0 21 3.6 1.00
> = 12 years of schooling 866 95.9 301 95.0 565 96.4 1.32 [0.67–2.60]
Income (€/month)
<1670 71 7.9 35 11.0 36 6.1 1.00 0.0004
1670–3130 328 36.3 134 42.3 194 33.1 1.35 [0.81–2.27]
>3130 504 55.8 148 46.7 356 60.8 2.09 [1.25–3.50]
Socioprofessional category 0.008
Executive and intellectual professions 322 35.7 94 29.7 228 38.9 1.00
Intermediate professions 253 28.0 79 24.9 174 29.7 0.96 [0.67–1.39]
Employees 280 31.0 119 37.5 161 27.5 0.61 [0.43–0.87]
Manual workers, farmers and self-employed 28 3.1 14 4.4 14 2.4 0.42 [0.19–0.92]
Never employed 20 2.2 11 3.5 9 1.5 0.45 [0.17–1.16]
Knowledge of official nutritional recommendations4 0.1
Poor (0–2) 191 21.2 78 22.9 113 19.0 1.00
Average (3) 217 24.0 73 23.2 144 25.1 1.35 [0.90–2.02]
Good (4–5) 495 54.8 166 53.9 329 55.9 1.34 [0.94–1.89]
Organic food consumption5 0.2
Never (avoid organic products) 191 25.5 79 29.7 112 23.2 1.00
Indifferent to organic food 88 11.7 32 12.0 56 11.6 1.18 [0.70–2.00]
Occasional consumption 239 31.9 75 28.2 164 34.0 1.53 [1.03–2.28]
Regular consumption 231 30.8 80 30.1 151 31.3 1.37 [0.92–2.05]
1

Dietary supplement users were defined as the subjects who used dietary supplement(s) at least 3 days a week at the time of the DS questionnaire.

2

P for linear trend (with adjustment for age, number of children, income, and knowledge of nutritional recommendations) or overall P (for all other variables).

3

Values are n % for all variables except for age where values are mean SD.

4

From the French National Nutrition and Health Programme.

5

Determined by multiple correspondence analysis of data from a questionnaire on organic food consumption (5 clusters defined by the first 3 discriminant axes). Because of missing values, the proportions of subjects were calculated with 483 supplement users and 266 non-users.