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Fonesce OB = National Institutes of Health Strengthening Knowledge and Office of Dietary Supplements Understanding of Dietary Supplements nd Coe ar Search CARDS nats cates? oy was CARDS deveopad? How can | acces and search CARDS? ‘at the source of the CARDS eta? How can I roid fodback on CARDS? What is CARDS? ‘CARDS stands for Computer Acces to Research on Dietary Supplements is 2 database of federally fund esearch projet prtaling oct supplements. Cert, CARDS contains projects nad ty the United States Department of acute (USDA, the Department of Defense (00D) 20d the ntitts and Contos (Ks) ofthe National situs of Health (IH) bopnning with fica year 1999, tho fs yoar that Ns bogan roperting esearch relat to tary supplements. Projets funda by cher recral gence wil be acento CARDS 3 they become svnable, The ofce of etary Supplement (205) wl post ates ane watt ad ter when CARDS updates ar cumple codes asgnd to each esearch profct allow the CARDS user to entity: + research elated to spciccetary supplement ingredints; fr example, vitamin Eorst + the typeof study; fr ample, a Phase study or an anima ty + oath outa or bclogicalofets; fr eranpl,estoporesisorantondant function + whethor the essarch is recy related or ncracty elated to catary solemn For ‘ezample, 2 cna! ial comparing bone destin woren given a dally calcium supplement ‘vor placebo woud be classified as rectly oated to dltary supplements. study ‘evamiaing the acthation of sterol homone receptors by supplemental vain acl tre woud bo clase as nec eats to citar supplements because the dct ‘pili or health fects of vain D supplmontation arent being stud /Aswarchof tho CARO database canbe used to srt and tabula information fra varity of purposes, For example, a researcher may want to know which Ks atthe NH und research on orbal supplement ingredents. consumer ay wart to now if he Federal governments supporing research ona popular deta suplement ingredient sich as vitamin. Why was CARDS developed? “ho ODS vas rected bythe US. Congres to “compile a database of scot esearch on dietary supplements and individual nuvents” a5 part ofthe Detar suplement Health and Education Act {064 which was passed by Congo in 1994. Te nfermation In CARDS is wel tothe US. Congress, agencles ofthe Federal goverment, andthe MK stitutes fr budgetary considerations. ton, CARD provides soft information for rsarchors, lth ar providers, ict athe genoa public. How ean | access and search CARDS? ‘You can ccs CARDS free of charge fom the OOS west. To earch CARDS, liken the Search (CARDS bton a the top oF this screen or ene: ‘his wil take you tothe main CARDS Search screen where you can ener 2 variety of search eter to find esate pojet of otret. The search ange I esgnd tobe sendy to allow Individuals tall eels of computer epertive to qulcky anette search CARDS. For example, tosearch or human stcis pertaining to calcio and ostogpross, slot the Felling: + Inthe Dietary Supplement orient box: Clean + Inthe Hoath outcome or logical tects box Ostonporass + Inthe “ype of Stay’ bors Huan Sti (Al) ‘other boxes blank canbe left Bank (tals ae se AL") ding moce search era into ter boxes such 25 Funding agncy or Coury ll focus the Search, since the CARDS database fs crrentiy populated with Wt rssarch projec beginning with cal year 1999, highly focused ‘ssc ay eld few or pos no projects Im adaion to the search boxes containing ls of terms, earch bones for elds suchas Projet or Principal iestigatr allow ass to Search fr space project by typing a parti rfl pojact © finial investigators name, Text search epiens ae also avalabeto search for words catained la the abstract itl of a esac project atclpating that a wide valet of etary supplement ingrdents eventually wit be std, the Dietary Supperontnreent list was intentionally designed tobe extensive. As consequence of

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