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Article: No Evidence Growth Hormone Boosts Athletic Performance, Stanford Analysis Shows.
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- March 17, 2008
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STANFORD, Calif. -- Athletes who risk their careers by taking banned growth hormone to improve performance may not be getting the benefits they'd anticipated, according to a new analysis by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
The team pooled data from previous studies in an attempt to summarize what's known about growth hormone's effects on athletic performance. Although this analysis may not reflect the way athletes actually take the drug illicitly, the lead author of the study, Hau Liu, MD, said with growth hormone in the news, it was a good time to scrutinize what was known about the drug.
Athletes' use of growth hormone is ...