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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 2012, Article ID 710750, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/710750 Research Article Acupuncture Use among American Adults: What Acupuncture Practitioners Can Learn from National Health Interview Survey 2007? Yan Zhang,1 Lixing Lao,2 Haiyan Chen,3 and Rodrigo Ceballos4 1 Division of Health Services Research, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 3601 4th Street, STOP 8143, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA 2 Family and Community Medicine, TCM Research Program, Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, East Hall, 520 W. Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA 3 Division of Health Services Research, Department of Health Promotion and Policy, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, and Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 650 West Baltimore Street, Room 2213, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA 4 Department of Family and Community Medicine, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 9849 Kenworthy Street, El Paso, TX 79924, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Yan Zhang, yan.zhang@ Received 9 August 2011; Accepted 9 November 2011 ¨ Academic Editor: Arndt Bussing Copyright © 2012 Yan Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper examined the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) 2007 and explored acupuncture users socio