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CHICAGO (AP) — Some boys
and girls as young as 10 are taking
illegal steroids to do better in sports,
according to the first survey to look
at use of the bodybuilding drugs as
early as fifth grade.
The survey found that 2.7 per
cent of 965 youngsters questioned
at four Massachusetts middle
schools are using anabolic steroids.
Experts said that represents a sig
nificant problem.
“We have thought that it has been
a problem primarily of high school
and college students,” said Dr. Robert
W. Blum, professor of pediatrics and
director of adolescent health at the
University of Minnesota.
Besides building muscles,
steroids can harm the liver, stunt
growth and cause a host of other
long-term ailments.
In some cases, coaches and par
ents may be buying steroids on the
black market and then passing
them along to the child athletes.
“A cycle of steroids costs a few
hundred dollars,” said University of
Massachusetts researcher Avery
Faigenbaum, whose study was pub
lished Monday in the journal Pedi
atrics. “I don’t know a lot of 10-year-
olds who have a couple of hundred
dollars. I think we have to look at
brothers and sisters, I think we have
to look at parents, I think we have to
look at youth coaches.”
Dr. Charles E. Yesalis, a Pennsyl
vania State University expert on
steroids, said: “This sounds the
klaxon. It’s a warning to parents,
doctors and school administrators.”
While high school students have
been surveyed, and Yesalis has sur
veyed seventh-graders, researchers
said this is the first survey to focus
on the problem down to fifth grade.
Experts said that there was no
reason to doubt that the results of
the anonymous survey taken with
teachers absent were
Yesalis said they were
with his own observations,
shocked, I ’in sorry to say,"
A major finding was
among middle-schoolgirl;
most as prevalent asitwa;
boys. Steroid usewasrepc:
2.B percent of boys and2.6|
of girls.
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