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Everyday hundreds of people, mostly athletes, abuse steroids to improve their physical appearance and enhance to their performance. The most popular type of steroids are the anabolic-androgenic steroids. ... Anabolic means, “muscle building”, and androgenic means “increased masculine characteristics”. The class of the drugs is referred to with the name “steroids”.
Anabolic steroids are taken by mouth or they are injected. ... Normally the steroids are taken in multiple doses throughout a specific period of time, stopping for a while, and then repeating. ... In most cases, people who do the cycle take many different kinds of steroids to get the most effective results with the least negative side effects. ... Other medicinal uses for steroids are for Aids and other disease patients whose bodies are wasting away. The steroids help the victims to recover some lost muscle mass. Despite the medicinal uses for steroids, abuse of them can directly result in major health problems, some which are irreversible.
Some of the more severe consequences for abusing anabolic steroids are liver tumors, cancer, jaundice (gives skin, tissues, and body fluids a yellowish pigmentation), high blood pressure, fluid retention, increases in bad cholesterol, and decreases in good cholesterol, kidney tumors, trembling, and severe acne.
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