Effects of anabolic-androgenic steroids on weight-lifters' myocardium: An ultrasonic videodensitometric study

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 514-521

  Di Bello, Vitantonio ^a   Giorgi, Davide ^b   Bianchi, Massimiliano ^b   Bertini, Alessio ^b   Caputo, Maria Teresa ^b   Valenti, Giousué ^b   Furioso, Orlando ^b   Alessandri, Lorenzo ^b   Paterni, Marco ^b   Giusti, Costantino ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Steroids; Videodensitometry; Weight lifters

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; ANDROGEN; COLLAGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VIDEODENSITOMETRY; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 0032915786     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005768-199904000-00004     Document Type: Article

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