Mortality of anabolic steroids users and other research

Risks of anabolic steroidsThe new series of Gladiators is nearly over, although I didn’t get past the first episode (I’ve added it to my long list of things that aren’t as appealing in your 40s as they were as a teenager). The original television series from the 1990s was marred by drug controversy, and one of the stars of the new series has admitted to taking anabolic steroids in the past. With a generation of children wondering how to get bodies that look like a Gladiator’s, an observational study that found an increase in mortality among males sanctioned for androgenic anabolic steroid (AAS) use seems topical. A total of 1189 males who tested positive for AAS from drugs testing at fitness centres in Denmark were each matched to 50 people of the same age. Of the 1189, 33 died over the median 11 year follow-up period—a death rate nearly three…
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