Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Healthy Athletes: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Many clinicians, trainers, and athletes do not have a true understanding of the effects of commonly used performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) on performance and health.

Objective

To provide an evidence-based review of 7 commonly used pharmacological interventions for performance enhancement in athletes.

Data sources

PubMed and Scopus databases were searched on April 8, 2022.

Study selection

Systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analyses (MAs) assessing the performance-enhancing effects of the following interventions were included: androgenic anabolic steroids (AAS), growth hormone (GH), selective androgen receptor modulators (SARMs), creatine, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)-inhibitors, recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO), and cannabis.

Study des

SUBMITTER: Warrier AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11346223 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature