Table 2.

National Estimates of Emergency Department Visits for Dietary Supplement Adverse Events by Product Category, Excluding Unsupervised Child Ingestions—United States, 2004–2013^*

Product Category†	Emergency Department Visits for Dietary Supplement Adverse Events
	National Estimate
	%	95% Confidence Interval
Herbals/Complementary Nutritionals	65.9	63.2 – 68.5
Weight Loss	25.5	23.1 – 27.9
Energy	10.0	8.0 – 11.9
Sexual Enhancement	3.4	2.4 – 4.3
Cardiovascular Health	3.1	2.3 – 3.9
Sleep, Sedation or Anxiolysis	2.9	2.1 – 3.6
Laxative	2.5	1.8 – 3.3
Bodybuilding	2.2	1.1 – 3.2
Immunity Infection/Cold	2.2	1.5 – 2.9
Pain/Arthritis Relief	1.7	1.2 – 2.3
Detoxification or Cleansing	1.4	0.7 – 2.0
Skin or Hair Health	1.0	0.6 – 1.4
Microbial Additive	0.8‡	0.4 – 1.3
Other Specified Products	4.8	3.7 – 5.9
Unspecified Products	4.4	3.3 – 5.4
Micronutrients	31.8	29.2 – 34.3
Multivitamins or Unspecified Vitamins	16.8	15.1–18.5
Iron	4.7	3.4 – 6.1
Calcium	3.4	2.5 – 4.3
Potassium	2.0	1.2 – 2.7
Other Single-ingredient Vitamins or Minerals	4.9	3.6 – 6.2
>1 Supplement Product§	2.4	1.4 – 3.3
Total	100.0	N/A

^*National Electronic Injury Surveillance System–Cooperative Adverse Drug Event Surveillance project, CDC.

^†For definitions and specific products please see Tables S1 and S2 in Supplementary Appendix.

^‡National estimate may be unstable (based on <20 cases).

^§Of 71 cases implicating two supplement products, 45 cases implicated two herbal/complementary nutritional products, 6 cases implicated two micronutrient products, and 20 cases implicated both a micronutrient and herbal/complementary nutritional product.