Performance-enhancing drugs: understanding the risks.
Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am
; 25(4): 897-913, 2014 Nov.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-25442165
ABSTRACT
To help clinicians understand the risks associated with performance-enhancing drugs, this overview covers prohibited lists of substances and methods, therapeutic use exemptions, the legitimate indications and adverse effects, including for megadose and polypharmacy doping of stimulants, anabolic steroids, erythropoiesis-stimulating agents, and growth hormone and ways in which physicians or patients risk committing anti-doping rule violations inadvertently.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Risk Assessment
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Dietary Supplements
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Doping in Sports
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Performance-Enhancing Substances
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Year:
2014
Type:
Article