US EditionWorkout substances can be harmful to some adolescents, survey of pediatricians says
Seventeen percent of surveyed Canadian pediatricians reported treating adolescents harmed by workout supplements and drugs, with many cases involving boys aged 13 to 15, health experts said.
- Seventeen percent of over 800 surveyed pediatric specialists reported seeing adolescents needing medical attention due to performance-enhancing substances or dietary supplements in the previous year.
- The majority of affected patients were boys aged 13 to 15, with almost a third between 10 and 12 years old.
- Kyle Ganson of the University of Toronto stated that the use of both legal and illegal performance-enhancing substances has increased among adolescents in recent years.
- More than half of the pediatric specialists surveyed reported that they never screen for these substances in their routine practice, and over a quarter stated they lack knowledge about them.
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TORONTO — Researchers argue that paediatricians, family physicians and parents should learn more about substances to improve the performance of children when they train or practise sport. Seventeen percent of the more than 800 Canadian pediatricians surveyed reported seeing adolescents who needed medical care due to dietary supplements or improved performance medication in the previous year. The majority of cases were boys, and more than half of…
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