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Anabolic—Androgenic Steroids
Disease-a-Month, 2013The use of drugs to enhance physical performance has occurred since the beginning of recorded time. Ancient Greeks ate mushrooms and sesame seeds to enhance performance, and Roman gladiators used stimulants to increase endurance. In modern sports, documentation of the abuse of performance-enhancing drugs appeared in the early 1900s, when athletes ...
Donald G, Barceloux, Robert B, Palmer
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Sports Medicine, 1995
The use of drugs to enhance physical performance has been observed for thousands of years. Today, individuals continue to use a variety of substances, including anabolic-androgenic steroids, in the hope of enhancing their performance and appearance.
C E, Yesalis, M S, Bahrke
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The use of drugs to enhance physical performance has been observed for thousands of years. Today, individuals continue to use a variety of substances, including anabolic-androgenic steroids, in the hope of enhancing their performance and appearance.
C E, Yesalis, M S, Bahrke
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Androgens, Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids, and Inhibitors
American Journal of Therapeutics, 2000Androgens are steroid hormones responsible for male sexual characteristics, testosterone being the principal androgen secreted by the testes. Androgens have both masculinizing and growth-stimulating or anabolic effects. Synthetic analogs of androgens have been used by professional, as well as amateur, athletes for possible performance enhancement.
J L, Donahue, D T, Lowenthal
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Strength and Conditioning Journal, 2007
This column summarizes several research studies regarding anabolic-androgenic steroids, including studies characterizing their usage regimens and associated behaviors of their users and addressing their effects on fertility, C reactive protein, and cardiac structure and cardiovascular function, and their presence in nutritional supplements.
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This column summarizes several research studies regarding anabolic-androgenic steroids, including studies characterizing their usage regimens and associated behaviors of their users and addressing their effects on fertility, C reactive protein, and cardiac structure and cardiovascular function, and their presence in nutritional supplements.
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Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Abuse
The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 2000Substance abuse is a major public health concern. Among healthcare professionals involved in sports and exercise, a specific goal is to reduce steroid use among adolescents. According to the Healthy People 2010 report (1), the estimated percentage of US male high school seniors using anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) declined from 4.7% in 1989 to 4.1%
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Anabolic androgens (anabolic steroids)
1995Abstract The paradigm anabolic androgen is the naturally occurring sex hormone testosterone, which exerts its actions through specific cellular receptors in the cytoplasm (intracellular fluid) of target cells (Lukas 1993). Testosterone is responsible for the development of male sexual characteristics in utero and for the changes that ...
R E Ferner +2 more
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Anabolic Androgenic Steroids and Suicide
Annals of Clinical Psychiatry, 1999Eight medicolegally examined cases of suicide, in 21- to 33-year-old males, with a history of current or discontinued use of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) are described, five of which were approached by means of systematic interviews with survivors.
I, Thiblin, B, Runeson, J, Rajs
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Androgenic anabolic steroid abuse
InnovAiT: Education and inspiration for general practice, 2023Androgen anabolic steroid abuse is a broad term describing the use of structural derivatives of testosterone with the aim to increase body mass and muscle size, or to enhance athletic performance. These drugs are typically used in large doses, much higher than would be prescribed for the treatment of medical conditions. This use of steroids is illegal
Dr Emilia Robinson +2 more
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Anabolic–Androgenic Steroids
2012The anabolic–androgenic steroids (AAS) are a family of hormones that includes the natural male hormone, testosterone, together with a group of synthetic derivatives of testosterone. These drugs are widely abused by men (and rarely, women) to gain muscle mass and lose body fat.
Harrison G. Pope, Gen Kanayama
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Anabolic androgenic steroid-induced hepatotoxicity
Medical Hypotheses, 2016Anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) have been abused for decades by both professional and amateur athletes in order to improve physical performance or muscle mass. AAS abuse can cause adverse effects, among which are hepatotoxic effects. These effects include cholestatic icterus and possibly peliosis hepatis and hepatocellular carcinoma or adenoma.
Peter, Bond +2 more
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