ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2022
Disproportionate Use of Over-the-counter Diet Pills Among Latinx Youth and Increased Use Over Time Among Latinx Females: Results of US National Study.
Article in The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Racial/ethnic inequities in potentially harmful supplement use: Results of a prospective US cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic.Public health · 2025Article
- Associations between weight discrimination and the use of potentially harmful dietary supplements during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
- Weak regulations threaten the safety of consumers from harmful weight-loss supplements globally: results from a pilot global policy scan.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- The societal costs and health impacts on obesity of BMI report cards in US schools.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2023Article
- Listening to Patients: Perspectives on Obesity Management.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
purposeOver-the-counter diet pills are target-marketed to Latinx communities, raising concerns about youth use of these harmful products.
methodsMultivariable logistic models estimated odds ratios (ORs) of diet-pill use in a representative sample of US Latinx and White students (2009-2013; N = 33,824).
resultsLatinx students had 30%-40% higher odds of past-30-day diet-pill use than White peers (males: OR = 1.39; 95% confidence interval = 1.10, 1.76, females: OR = 1.34; 95% confidence interval = 1.12, 1.61), and inequities among females widened, with one in 10 Latinx females reporting past-30-day use by 2013 (10.0% Latinx females vs. 6.2% White non-Latinx females). DISCUSSION: Higher prevalence of over-the-counter diet-pill use in Latinx relative to white youth-and increasing use over time for Latinx females-underscores the need for stronger restrictions on marketing and sale to youth.
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