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The heart is a muscle and it too is affected by anabolic steroids.
Here was a study done on weight lifters using steroids vs not using.
https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20100427/anabolic-steroids-may-weaken-the-heart#1
The article says it is not known if the users can recover from the damage. When I was about 35 years old I was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and my heart did recover after getting off the juice. My EF was down to about 35-40% too. That is just my experience and obviously not proof of anything, but thought I would share again.
A better study run here showed:
"Echocardiography revealed that 71 percent of current AAS users had a lower-than-normal LV ejection fraction, a measure of how much oxygenated blood the heart delivers to the arteries with each contraction"
71% of their population, that is large.
Study showed some recovery, which is good:
"Half of current AAS users exhibited slower-than-normal LV expansion, indicating that reduced amounts of oxygenated blood flowed in to refill the LV during the relaxation phase of the heartbeat. These impairments likely were related to thickening of the LV muscle wall in the AAS users. Former AAS users had a larger LV ejection fraction than current users, suggesting that their LV had recovered some pumping strength."
This is not reversible:
"AAS users also had significantly more atherosclerotic plaque in their coronary arteries than did nonusers (see Figure 2). This effect was more pronounced the longer they had taken AAS and did not seem to be reversible after discontinuing AAS use. "
The control group showed no differences in heart:
"The researchers found no differences in cardiovascular structure and function between AAS nonuser weightlifters and nonusers who were not weightlifters. This observation confirmed that none of the observed changes could be attributed to weightlifting itself."
the study is here: https://www.drugabuse.gov/news-even...androgenic-steroids-may-damage-heart-arteries
I just spent about 3 minutes and found those articles. There are many more out there. Maybe if you find a good study you can add it to this thread.
Here was a study done on weight lifters using steroids vs not using.
https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20100427/anabolic-steroids-may-weaken-the-heart#1
The article says it is not known if the users can recover from the damage. When I was about 35 years old I was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and my heart did recover after getting off the juice. My EF was down to about 35-40% too. That is just my experience and obviously not proof of anything, but thought I would share again.
A better study run here showed:
"Echocardiography revealed that 71 percent of current AAS users had a lower-than-normal LV ejection fraction, a measure of how much oxygenated blood the heart delivers to the arteries with each contraction"
71% of their population, that is large.
Study showed some recovery, which is good:
"Half of current AAS users exhibited slower-than-normal LV expansion, indicating that reduced amounts of oxygenated blood flowed in to refill the LV during the relaxation phase of the heartbeat. These impairments likely were related to thickening of the LV muscle wall in the AAS users. Former AAS users had a larger LV ejection fraction than current users, suggesting that their LV had recovered some pumping strength."
This is not reversible:
"AAS users also had significantly more atherosclerotic plaque in their coronary arteries than did nonusers (see Figure 2). This effect was more pronounced the longer they had taken AAS and did not seem to be reversible after discontinuing AAS use. "
The control group showed no differences in heart:
"The researchers found no differences in cardiovascular structure and function between AAS nonuser weightlifters and nonusers who were not weightlifters. This observation confirmed that none of the observed changes could be attributed to weightlifting itself."
the study is here: https://www.drugabuse.gov/news-even...androgenic-steroids-may-damage-heart-arteries
I just spent about 3 minutes and found those articles. There are many more out there. Maybe if you find a good study you can add it to this thread.