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History and epidemiology of anabolic androgens in athletes and non-athletes.
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AAS abuse has now become particularly prevalent in regions such as Scandinavia, the United States, Brazil, and British Commonwealth countries, but remains rare in countries such as China, Korea, and Japan - a pattern that reflects cultural differences in attitudes towards male muscularity.About:
This article is published in Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology.The article was published on 2017-03-01. It has received 119 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Athletes & Population.read more
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Organized Sports for Children, Preadolescents, and Adolescents.
Kelsey Logan,Steven Cuff +1 more
TL;DR: The benefits and risks of organized sports as well as the roles of schools, community organizations, parents, and coaches in organized sports are reviewed, and guidance for pediatricians on counseling parents and advocating for healthy organized sports participation is provided.
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Identifying a typology of men who use anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS)
TL;DR: The results of this study demonstrate the need to make information about AAS accessible to the general population and to inform health service providers about variations in motivations and associated risk behaviours.
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Recreational and ergogenic substance use and substance use disorders in elite athletes: a narrative review
David R. McDuff,Todd Stull,João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia,Mary E Hitchcock,Brian Hainline,Claudia L. Reardon +5 more
TL;DR: Alcohol, cannabis, tobacco (nicotine) and prescribed opioids and stimulants are the most commonly used substances in elite athletes, but generally used at lower rates than in non-athletes.
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Diagnosis and Management of Anabolic Androgenic Steroid Use.
TL;DR: Men who use AASs <1 year typically recover normal hypothalamic-pituitary-testicular axis function within 1 year after cessation, and men who have infertility due to high-dosage AAS use ≥1 year might benefit from short-term treatment with clomiphene or human chorionic gonadotropin.
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Androgen abuse epidemiology
Dominic Sagoe,Ståle Pallesen +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence also corroborates indications that androgen abuse is less prevalent among women (vs. men), and in the general population in contrast to particular subpopulations consisting of athletes, injection drug users, recreational sportspeople, and sexual and gender minorities.
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The effects of supraphysiologic doses of testosterone on muscle size and strength in normal men.
Shalender Bhasin,Thomas W. Storer,Nancy Berman,Carlos Callegari,Brenda Clevenger,Jeff M. Phillips,Thomas J. Bunnell,Ray Tricker,Aida Shirazi,Richard Casaburi +9 more
TL;DR: Those given testosterone had greater increases than those given placebo in muscle size in their arms and the strength of the arms and legs was assessed by bench-press and squatting exercises, respectively.
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Youth risk behavior surveillance--United States, 2003.
Jo Anne Grunbaum,Laura Kann,Steve Kinchen,James G. Ross,Joseph Hawkins,Richard Lowry,William A. Harris,Tim McManus,David Chyen,Janet L. Collins +9 more
TL;DR: Results from the 2003 national Youth Risk Behavior Survey demonstrate that the majority of risk behaviors associated with these two causes of death are initiated during adolescence, and education and health officials at national, state, and local levels are using these data to improve policies and programs to reduce priority health-risk behaviors among youth.
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The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reveal a threat that is as serious as the beauty myth for women or anorexia nervosa for girls: growing numbers of young men are taking the quest for perfect muscles, skin and hair too far, crossing the line from normal interest to abnormal obsession.