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steriods
Title: steriods
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 516 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
steriods
Anabolic steroids" is the familiar name for synthetic substances related to the male sex
hormones (androgens). They promote the growth of skeletal muscle (anabolic effects) and
the development of male sexual characteristics (androgenic effects), and also have some other
effects. The term "anabolic steroids" will be used through-out this report because of its
familiarity, although the proper term for these compounds is "anabolic-androgenic" steroids.
Anabolic steroids were developed in the late 1930s primarily to treat …showed first 75 words of 516 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 516 total…of 8th-graders, 1.8 percent of
10th-graders, and 2.1 percent of 12th-graders reported that they had taken anabolic steroids at
least once. Few data exist on the extent of steroid abuse by adults. It has been estimated that
hundreds of thousands of people aged 18 and older abuse anabolic steroids at least once a
year. Among both adolescents and adults, steroid abuse is higher among males than females.
However, steroid abuse is growing most rapidly among young women.
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