Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—February 3, 2014. A new study in Pediatrics finds gay and bisexual adolescents are more than 5 times more likely to misuse anabolic-androgenic steroids than their heterosexual counterparts, putting them at risk of cardiovascular, endocrine and psychiatric complications. The study, “Sexual Orientation and Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids in U.S. Adolescent Boys,” will be published in the March 2014 Pediatrics and released online Feb. 4.
Researchers analyzed questionnaires from 17,250 adolescents, of whom…
