Health and Fitness

Study Finds Higher Rates of Steroid Use Among Gay and Bisexual Teen Boys

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.

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