A positive test marked the fourth doping incident at the Delhi CWG Games 2010 and the third by an athlete from Nigeria. Folashade Abugan, the Nigerian runner, tested positive for a banned anabolic steroid and was stripped of her 400m and 4×400m silver medals.

Abugan returned an adverse analytical finding from a test after competing in the women’s 400-meter final, according to a statement issued by the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF).

From Pattayadailynews.com:

“Ms Abugan’s ‘A’ sample was found to demonstrate findings consistent with an exogenous origin of endogenous steroids. The delta values indicate an application of testosterone prohormone, which is prohibited under the current WADA Prohibited List S1 Anabolic Agents,” the statement read. Abugan admitted her guilt after refusing to have her B sample tested.

“Ms Abugan wrote to the CGF waiving her rights to have her ‘B’ sample analysed and a hearing, as provided for within the CGF Anti-Doping Standard (ADS). She also admitted liability,” the CGF statement said.

The Federation Court since concluded that Abugan had committed a violation of anti-doping rules and was disqualified from all events that has participated in during the Games, with results nullified.

“This includes her silver medal in the women’s 400 metres. As she was also a member of her country’s second placed 4×400 metre relay team, that result is also nullified,” the CGF said.

Before Abugan’s name broke out, Nigeria’s Osayomi Oludamola and Samuel Okon and India’s Rani Yadav tested positive for banned substances.

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Anabolic steroids are used by sportsmen, especially bodybuilders and strength athletes, to build solid muscles in short time. They are synthetic hormones capable of promoting the processes of protein retention and tissue growth.

But use of steroids can result in side effects when they are abused or of a low quality and these side effects may vary from depression to psychological changes and from increased aggression to infertility.

From Topics.nytimes.com:

Steroids came to weight lifting in Russia during the 1950s, and to America by 1960. By the end of the decade, other elite athletes had discovered the drugs. For nearly two decades, starting in the late 1960s, East German women dominated the international sports stage, aided by an organized system of anabolic steroid use. Despite strong testing procedures, steroid-related scandal has continued to follow the Olympic Games, the Tour de France and major professional sports.

Not all revelations of steroid use are accompanied by outrage. An admitted former user of steroids, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is governor of California. Professional wrestling, where steroid use has been widely documented, has been a ratings leader on cable television for years.

Like every other thing in this world, steroids can have bad effects but only when abused and the best way out is using them under medical guidance and for legal purposes.

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The use of anabolic steroids by patients suffering kidney diseases may prove to be effective to increase lean muscle mass besides minimizing the fatigue level to a significant extent, as per a new study.

Kidney disease patients tend to experience malnutrition and an accompanying loss of muscle mass and these side effects have been associated in the past with an increased mortality.

From Bio-Medicine.Org:

A team of University of California San Francisco researchers, led by Kirsten L. Johansen, M.D., UCSF assistant professor of medicine, epidemiology & biostatistics, studied a group of patients who were receiving dialysis and were suffering from malnutrition.

In a randomized, double blind trial, 29 patients were given either the anabolic steroid nandrolone decanote or a placebo (dummy medication) for a six-month period. All of the patients were receiving dialysis treatments at San Francisco General Hospital. At the end of the trial, patients receiving the anabolic steroid gained an average of 5.7 pounds more lean body mass than the patients who got the placebo. Also, the patients who received the steroid reported less fatigue and scored better on physical performance tests. The researchers’ results are published in the April 14 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Hemodialysis, the most common form of dialysis in the United States, is a medical procedure employed when a patient’s kidneys cannot properly clean the blood of toxins and waste products. A patient’s blood is removed from the body via a tube inserted in a vein, filtered by a dialysis machine, and then replaced. Typically, this process must be repeated three times a week and takes three to four hours. In some cases, dialysis is considered a “bridge” while the patient is awaiting a kidney transplant - which can be up to a three year wait in the US.

This study was supported by grants from the National Center for Research Resources, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and the Bay Area Nutrition Center.

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A Royal Marine aspirant, Matthew Dear, died days after he was seriously ill at Southend Hospital. His family said that Matthew was rushed to the hospital two weeks after they had a barbecue. The simple thought of food poisoning led to serious medical condition for Matthew.

Initially, his father, Mr. Chris Dear said that Mathew lost his vision and eventually his brain and kidney collapsed. The family blamed the incident from the pills he had taken days before the tragedy. These pills are now under the custody of the police for investigation. He wanted to bulk his body and to prepare himself for the upcoming selection of cadets for the Royal Marines.

Forensic experts had conducted some tests on the boy’s body to identify the pills that he had taken. Police, on the other hand, arrested three people who are believed to be the supplier of steroid pills. The three are all from Essex, a 17-year-old boy and the 21-year-old man are from Westcliff while the other 24-year-old man is from Leigh.

From Times Online:

Post-mortem tests will today be carried out on a 17-year-old body builder who is thought to have died after taking steroids to bulk himself up for selection into the Royal Marines.

Mr. Dear said that his son first fell ill two weeks ago after a barbecue and the family assumed that he was suffering from food poisoning. A week ago, however, he took a turn for the worse.

It is unlawful to use and to possess anabolic steroid without the written consent from the patient’s doctor. Anabolic steroids in all forms are regulated drugs due to a number of adverse effects it manifests. This substance improves protein synthesis in cells, thereby enhances the formation of muscular tissue and efficient recovery of muscles in times of injury.

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