Analysis of doping control test results in individual and team sports from 2003 to 2015.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Determining the prevalence of doping in sport might be useful for anti-doping authorities to gauge the effectiveness of anti-doping policies implemented to prevent positive attitudes toward doping. Using questionnaires and personal interviews, previous investigations have found that the prevalence of doping might be different among different sports disciplines; however, there is no sport-specific information about the proportion of adverse and atypical findings (AAF) in samples used for doping control. The aim of the present investigation was to assess the differences in the frequency of adverse analytical and atypical findings among sports using the data made available by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Methods

The data included in this investigation were gathered

SUBMITTER: Aguilar-Navarro M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7031807 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature