DMAA as a Dietary Supplement Ingredient

Dietary supplement ingredient database (DSID): Preliminary USDA studies on the composition of adult multivitamin/mineral supplements.

The Nutrient Data Laboratory of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is collaborating with the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), and other government agencies to design and populate a dietary supplement ingredient database (DSID). This analytically based, publicly available database will provide reliable estimates of vitamin and...

Progress in development of an integrated dietary supplement ingredient database at the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements.

Several activities of the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health involve enhancement of dietary supplement databases. These include an initiative with US Department of Agriculture to develop an analytically substantiated dietary supplement ingredient database (DSID) and collaboration with the National Center for Health Statistics to enhance the dietary suppleme...

Phyto-derived Ceramides New Dietary Ingredient Notification

Factors associated with serious traffic crashes: a prospective study in southwest France.

understand DMAA’s potential health effects. Supplements containing DMAA have been implicated as potentially contributing agents in multiple serious adverse events, including panic attacks, seizures, stress-induced cardiomyopathy, and 2 deaths. In Europe and New Zealand, DMAA use as a party drug has been implicated in at least 1 hemorrhagic stroke. Causality has yet to be proven, but these adver...

Dietary supplement use by adolescents.

OBJECTIVES To review the use, benefits and adverse effects of the main dietary supplements consumed by adolescents. SOURCES The literature review was performed using MEDLINE and LILACS databases (1997-2008). We analyzed 377 articles, and 52 of them were selected as references. SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS Consumption of dietary supplements is widely spread among adolescents. This habit has often...