Assessing the use of prescription drugs and dietary supplements in obese respondents in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Laura A. Barrett; Aiwen Xing; Julia Sheffler; Elizabeth Steidley; Terrence J. Adam; Rui Zhang; Zhe He

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0269241

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Assessing the use of prescription drugs and dietary supplements in obese respondents in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Laura A. Barrett,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Information, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
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Aiwen Xing,

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4901-7025

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Julia Sheffler,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
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Elizabeth Steidley,

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Information, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
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Terrence J. Adam,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Health Informatics and College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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Rui Zhang,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Health Informatics and College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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Zhe He

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: zhe@fsu.edu

Affiliations School of Information, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3608-0244

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Assessing the use of prescription drugs and dietary supplements in obese respondents in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Laura A. Barrett,
Aiwen Xing,
Julia Sheffler,
Elizabeth Steidley,
Terrence J. Adam,
Rui Zhang,
Zhe He

Published: June 3, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269241

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