From the 304 athletes, 44 were excluded due to incomplete information, and 19 due to miss-reporting (16 for underreporting and 3 for over-reporting).
Therefore, the final sample
comprised 241 athletes (66% males , 13-37 years,71.5 13.0 kg, 178 11 cm). Similar Nutritional supplements prevalence of use ( p ¼ 0.370) and energy intake ( p ¼ 0.842) were reported by athletes regardless the method of data collection. An overview of basic characteristics of supplement users and non-users, by gender,is given in Table 1.