DecaDent*
07-16-2002, 06:30 PM
This sobering study followed winning powerlifters for 12 years after they won national competitions and found that they death rate approached 13% during that 12 years inital follow-up. That is over 4x higher than the general population of the same age.Suicide and heart attacks were the most common events leading to death in the powerlifter group.
This,to me,emphasizes the importance of proper medical monitoring,especially lipid/cholesterol profiles,liver function,and mental health when using AAS.
Winstrol is particularly bad at raising LDL cholesterol and lowering the good(HDL) cholesterol and that will clog your arteries faster than the hair you lose clogs the sink drain,you just can't see/feel it happening. Get a lipid panel done while "on" and see for yourself. There are drugs that can counter this side effect,but you won't know without looking.
Watch out for your selves and your budz and if you play,play the game smart. The price is to high for failure.
Here's the abstract.
Increased premature mortality of competitive powerlifters suspected to have used anabolic agents.
Misuse of supraphysiological doses of anabolic steroids is claimed to have serious side effects. The aim of the study was to determine the mortality, and the cause of premature deaths among a group of subjects who are strongly suspected to have used anabolic steroids for a non-medical purpose over several years. The mortality of 62 male powerlifters placed 1st-5th in weight series 82.5-125 kg in Finnish championships during 1977-1982 was compared with the mortality of population controls. The mortality during the 12-year follow-up was 12.9% for the powerlifters compared to 3.1% in the control population. By 1993 eight of 62 powerlifters and 34 of 1094 population controls had died, thus the risk of death among the powerlifters was 4.6 times higher (95% CI 2.04-10.45; p = 0.0002). The causes of premature death among the powerlifters were suicide (3), acute myocardial infarction (3), hepatic coma (1) and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (1). These findings add to the growing amount of evidence of an association between anabolic steroid abuse and premature death, and support the view that measures to decrease AAS misuse among both competitive and amateur athletes are justified
Int J Sports Med 2000 Apr;21(3):225-7 (ISSN: 0172-4622)
Parssinen M; Kujala U; Vartiainen E; Sarna S; Seppala T
National Public Health Institute, Laboratory of Substance Abuse, Helsinki, Finland. miia.parssinen@ktl.fi.
This,to me,emphasizes the importance of proper medical monitoring,especially lipid/cholesterol profiles,liver function,and mental health when using AAS.
Winstrol is particularly bad at raising LDL cholesterol and lowering the good(HDL) cholesterol and that will clog your arteries faster than the hair you lose clogs the sink drain,you just can't see/feel it happening. Get a lipid panel done while "on" and see for yourself. There are drugs that can counter this side effect,but you won't know without looking.
Watch out for your selves and your budz and if you play,play the game smart. The price is to high for failure.
Here's the abstract.
Increased premature mortality of competitive powerlifters suspected to have used anabolic agents.
Misuse of supraphysiological doses of anabolic steroids is claimed to have serious side effects. The aim of the study was to determine the mortality, and the cause of premature deaths among a group of subjects who are strongly suspected to have used anabolic steroids for a non-medical purpose over several years. The mortality of 62 male powerlifters placed 1st-5th in weight series 82.5-125 kg in Finnish championships during 1977-1982 was compared with the mortality of population controls. The mortality during the 12-year follow-up was 12.9% for the powerlifters compared to 3.1% in the control population. By 1993 eight of 62 powerlifters and 34 of 1094 population controls had died, thus the risk of death among the powerlifters was 4.6 times higher (95% CI 2.04-10.45; p = 0.0002). The causes of premature death among the powerlifters were suicide (3), acute myocardial infarction (3), hepatic coma (1) and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (1). These findings add to the growing amount of evidence of an association between anabolic steroid abuse and premature death, and support the view that measures to decrease AAS misuse among both competitive and amateur athletes are justified
Int J Sports Med 2000 Apr;21(3):225-7 (ISSN: 0172-4622)
Parssinen M; Kujala U; Vartiainen E; Sarna S; Seppala T
National Public Health Institute, Laboratory of Substance Abuse, Helsinki, Finland. miia.parssinen@ktl.fi.