THE PARENTERAL ADMINISTRATION of testosterone and other steroids to castrate dogs, rats and intact human males has been reported to increase gains in body weight and nitrogen retention (3, 5, 6) but in addition to the anabolic effects, there were undesirable androgenic side effects. In efforts to find compounds with improved efficiency and reduced side effects, many steroids that possess high a...

BACKGROUND Anabolic-androgenic steroid use has become an increasingly large problem. Studies document steroid use in high-school students, but not students in junior high school. We surveyed 7th-grade students to assess rate of use and knowledge about steroids. METHODS Seventh-grade students completed a 22-question survey instrument that addressed previous steroid use, knowledge about the eff...

Collapsing glomerulopathy (CG) is a proliferative podocytopathy, increasingly recognized in a variety of disease conditions. We report a case of CG in a 16-year-old boy with IgA nephropathy (IgAN) who presented with acute kidney injury, marked proteinuria and hypertension following a short period of anabolic steroid use. Although CG has been associated with long-term anabolic steroid use among ...

Anabolic steroids are synthetic derivatives of testosterone and are often illegally used by athletes to increase their physical performance. There is a correlation between the use of these drugs and increased cardiovascular risk1. Human growth hormone (hGH) has also been used to increase physical performance, despite the risk of cardiovascular complications2. Clenbuterol is a potent β2-agonist ...

As part of the International Congress of Clinical Chemistry, a symposium, Doping in Sport: Misuse, Analytical Tests, and Legal Aspects, was held, a week before the start of the Olympic Games at Atlanta, bringing together a number of international experts concerned with various aspects of controlling drug abuse in sport. The presentations focused particularly on anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS...