Dietary Supplements — A New PubMed® Subset

A new PubMed subset, "Dietary Supplements," will soon be available. This subset is designed to limit search results to citations from a broad spectrum of dietary supplement literature including vitamin, mineral, phytochemical, ergogenic, botanical, and herbal supplements in human nutrition and animal models. The subset will retrieve dietary supplement-related citations on topics including, but not limited to:

• chemical composition;
• biochemical role and function — both in vitro and in vivo;
• clinical trials;
• health and adverse effects;
• fortification;
• traditional Chinese medicine and other folk/ethnic supplement practices;
• cultivation of botanical products used as dietary supplements; as well as,
• surveys of dietary supplement use.
  
  

The subset will be added as a choice in the Subset category on the Limits page. Alternatively, the dietary supplements subset can be selected as a filter in MyNCBI or you can incorporate the subset into a search using AND dietsuppl [sb].

Example: diabetes AND dietsuppl [sb]

The Dietary Supplement subset is a joint project between NLM® and the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) of the National Institutes of Health. This subset was created using a search strategy including terms provided by ODS, and selected journals indexed for MEDLINE® that include significant dietary supplement-related content.

The Dietary Supplements subset has considerable overlap with the Complementary Medicine subset but each has unique records. To limit to retrieval from either subset in a PubMed search, check both boxes in the Subsets category on the PubMed Limits page.

The subset succeeds the International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database, 1999-2010, which was a collaboration between the two U.S. government agencies, ODS and United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library.